Record of a Night Too Brief
Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (translator)
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Publisher / Imprint
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press
Publication Date
September 3, 2024
September 3, 2024
Format
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Pages
160
160
ISBN-13
978-1-80-533140-7
978-1-80-533140-7
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…
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…
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Edition Info
Publisher / Imprint
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press
Publication Date
September 3, 2024
September 3, 2024
Format
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Pages
160
160
ISBN-13
978-1-80-533140-7
978-1-80-533140-7
Trade Paperback
Unabridged
Publication Date:
September 3, 2024
ISBN-13:
978-1-80-533140-7