Kawakami Hiromi - Record Of A Night Too Brief - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Yoshimoto In 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
Title: Record Of A Night Too Brief
Author(s): Kawakami Hiromi
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782272717
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/5/2017
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction