A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo.
Yuko Tsushima (Author)
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), which she published at
the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi
Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and
the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.
Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus
on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.
*Japan Times*
Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf
quality
*BBC Radio 3*
Spiky, atmospheric and intimate, filled with moments of strangeness
that linger in the mind
*The Spectator*
In this short, powerful novel lurk the joy and guilt of single
parents everywhere
*Guardian*
This exquisite and poignant novel . . . will resonate with single
mothers always and everywhere
*Shami Chakrabarti*
An extraordinary book . . . cool analytic intelligence propelled by
sudden eruptions of passion
*Lisa Appignanesi*
An astonishing and exquisite masterpiece about love, motherhood,
female independence, and the restoration of a damaged family. Yuko
Tsushima is an unforgettable name alongside great masters like
Virginia Woolf, Alice Munro and Elizabeth Strout
*J. M. Lee, author of The Investigation*
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