Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 24 October 2024 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 160 pages
196 x 129 x 15 | 146g
The
Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and
provocative contemporary Japanese
writers
'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.'
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.
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.
