Record of a Night Too Brief (Japanese Novellas, #3)

by Hiromi Kawakami

Lucy North (Translator)

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The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo

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.

  • ISBN10 1782272712
  • ISBN13 9781782272717
  • Publish Date 26 January 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Pushkin Press