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Territory of light / Yuko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First American editionDescription: 183 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374273217
  • 0374273219
Uniform titles:
  • Hikari no ryōbun. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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.
Summary: "From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"-- Provided by publisher.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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Fiction Tsushima Yuko Available 33111008227718
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth

"Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation." --Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times

I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . .

It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her 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. As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become.

At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Yuko Tsushima's Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire, and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo , between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time. It won the inaugural Noma Literary Prize.

"From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"-- Provided by publisher.

"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."

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.

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.

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