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Record of a Night Too Brief

Record of a Night Too Brief

Kawakami, Hiromi
North, Lucy

Paperback

Series: Japanese Novellas

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 180533140X
ISBN13: 9781805331407
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Evocative... Astonishing, strange, and wonderful - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearances

Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, from the celebrated author of Strange Weather in Tokyo

In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance.

The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.

A woman travels through an unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, monsters of the mist and a monkey who shows no mercy. A sister mourns her brother, who is visible only to her, while her family welcome his would-be wife into their home. One morning, a woman treads on a snake in the park. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary award, the 3 stories in this collection:

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