Record of a Night Too Brief
Author(s): Hiromi Kawakami
One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother...So begins the story of a woman trying to live with a snake, with herself - or perhaps with something else altogether. This volume includes the three stories "A Snake Stepped On", "Missing" and "Record of a Night Too Brief" which together won the Akutagawa Prize in 1996. Filled with fantastically multicoloured images and unexplained collapses in time and place, these highly surreal, meticulously worked stories of longing and disappearance, love and loathing are the work of an enormously talented writer at the top of her game.
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Hiromi Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958. Since the publication of God in 1994, she has written numerous novels and collections of short stories, including Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop. Her most recent novel, Running Water, was published in Japan in 2014 and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Hiromi Kawakami has previously been awarded the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her work has been published in more than twenty languages.
General Fields
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- : Pushkin Press, Limited
- : Pushkin Press, Limited
- : 0.158757
- : 01 December 2016
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : 01 February 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hiromi Kawakami
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 895.636
- : 160