Gifted / Suzumi Suzuki ; translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suzuki, Suzumi, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Powell, Allison Markin, translator.

Standardized Title:

Gifuteddo. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Sex workers--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.

Sex workers.

Caregivers--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.

Caregivers.

Japanese fiction--21st century.

Japanese fiction.

Physical Description:

96 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Transit Books, [2024]

Summary:

"In the last days of her mother's life, a young woman living in Tokyo's red-light district is thrust into a split existence. By day, she negotiates her new role as caregiver of an abusive parent. By night, she drifts home from the hospital, goes out with other sex-workers, thinks about quitting smoking, and numbly remembers Eri, a friend who died the summer before. Her sensitivity to the details of her surroundings grounds an otherwise unstable world, one where each interaction requires a subtle negotiation of economic and sexual power, and proximity rarely means intimacy or connection. Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, GIFTED--Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English--offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction." -- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9798893389005

OCLC:

1428898676