Record of a Night too Brief

Authors: Kawakami, Hiromi
Publisher: Steerforth Press
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC019000, FIC025000, FIC029000, FIC061000, LCO004030
ISBN: 9781782272724, Related ISBNs: 1782272712, 1782272720, 9781782272717, 9781782272724
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 96,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing.

In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance.

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.
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