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Territory of light / Yuko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Tsushima Territory
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- Author/Creator:
- Tsushima, Yūko, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Hikari no ryōbun. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.
- Tokyo (Japan).
- Single mothers--Fiction.
- Single mothers.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Abandoned wives--Fiction.
- Abandoned wives.
- Short stories, Japanese.
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Japanese fiction--Translations into English.
- Japanese fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Translations.
- Novels.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Summary:
- A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone, her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered. With the turning of the seasons, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become.
- Follows a year in the life of a recently divorced woman in Tokyo who struggles to care for her young daughter while confronting growing inner darkness, painful losses, and the changes she is forced to make to survive.
- "From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Territory of light
- The water's edge
- Sunday in the trees
- A dream of birds
- The sound of a voice
- The magic words
- The dunes
- Red lights
- The body
- The earth's surface
- Flames
- Corpuscules of light.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Japan in 1979 by Kodansha Ltd., Japan, as Hikari no Ryoubun. English translation rights arranged with the Estate of Yuko Tsushima through Japan UNI Agency, Inc., Tokyo. English translation originally published in 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd., Great Britain."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 17
- ISBN:
- 9780374273217
- 0374273219
- 1250251052
- 9781250251053
- OCLC:
- 1036106089
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