Territory of Light

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Pub Date Apr 05 2018 | Archive Date Sep 11 2019
Penguin Books (UK) | Penguin Classics

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Description

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 first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time afterwards.

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 first year of the narrator's separation from her...


Advance Praise

"Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity". - Kris Kosaka, Japan Times

"Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality" - Margaret Drabble, BBC Radio 3

"Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity". - Kris Kosaka, Japan Times

"Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780241312193
PRICE £9.99 (GBP)
PAGES 128

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