Record of a Night Too Brief
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A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearances
Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, from the celebrated author of Strange Weather in Tokyo
In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance.
The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.
A woman travels through an unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, monsters of the mist and a monkey who shows no mercy. A sister mourns her brother, who is visible only to her, while her family welcome his would-be wife into their home. One morning, a woman treads on a snake in the park. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother...
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary award, the 3 stories in this collection:
Part of Pushkin's Japanese Novella series: stylishly designed editions of the best of contemporary Japanese fiction, featuring celebrated, prize-winning authors including Mieko Kawakami, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Fujino and Natsuko Imamura.
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"I was about to say "I love you" a fourth time when the girl put out her hand and stopped my mouth, gently. Her hands as she touched my lips smelt of the night. I didn't want it there, and grasping her wrist gently, I moved it away. "Why?" I asked. "You know why. Because it's a lie," she replied. I hugged her gently, and she hugged me back, equally gently. "It's not something you say so easily," she said as she hugged me. She's right, I thought, as we hugged each other, bit before very long I wanted to tell her I loved her again. Well, why don't we stop, then, if it's a lie!" S.24
Description
A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearances
Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, from the celebrated author of Strange Weather in Tokyo
In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance.
The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.
A woman travels through an unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, monsters of the mist and a monkey who shows no mercy. A sister mourns her brother, who is visible only to her, while her family welcome his would-be wife into their home. One morning, a woman treads on a snake in the park. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother...
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary award, the 3 stories in this collection:
Part of Pushkin's Japanese Novella series: stylishly designed editions of the best of contemporary Japanese fiction, featuring celebrated, prize-winning authors including Mieko Kawakami, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Fujino and Natsuko Imamura.
Book Information
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"I was about to say "I love you" a fourth time when the girl put out her hand and stopped my mouth, gently. Her hands as she touched my lips smelt of the night. I didn't want it there, and grasping her wrist gently, I moved it away. "Why?" I asked. "You know why. Because it's a lie," she replied. I hugged her gently, and she hugged me back, equally gently. "It's not something you say so easily," she said as she hugged me. She's right, I thought, as we hugged each other, bit before very long I wanted to tell her I loved her again. Well, why don't we stop, then, if it's a lie!" S.24