Record of a Night Too Brief - Japanese Novellas

Akutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary writers-for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana YoshimotoIn a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing. Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales."Talking animals, transformations into trees and horses, and a melancholic mood of loss and love make it easy to see why Kawakami is one of the more exciting voices in contemporary Japanese literature." -Thrillist

ISBN:	9781782272717
Publisher:	Steerforth Press
Imprint:	Pushkin Press
Published date:	26 Jan 2017
DEWEY:	895.636
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	158
Weight:	148g
Height:	200mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	12mm

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