Tsushima Yuko

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Child of Fortune

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the f

Jestem, mówię, tęsknię (oryginalny tytuł Watashi, tzn. Ja) jest zbiorem opowiadań wybitnej japońskiej pisarki Yuko Tsushimy (1947-2016). Jest ona córką legendarnego pisarza Osamu Dazaia (1909-1948), który popełnił samobójstwo wraz z kochank

Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering on the edge of tragedy. It covers a year in the life of a single mother with an eleven-year-old daughter, combining a complex interior world with memorably visual imagery. The

It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with li

'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives. Peng