Premio Jory? Bungaku, 1978. Vuelve la autora de «Territorio de luz» con una historia dolorosamente veraz en su descripción de la feminidad y la maternidad japonesas.
Es primavera y una mujer, abandonada por su marido, decide comenzar una nueva vida en la ciudad de Tokio junto con su hija de dos años. A solas en un ático alquilado en mitad de la ciudad, la protagonista de esta historia pasará los...
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.
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...
Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai ( Carnival<
In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.