Territory of light / Yuko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt.
Territory of light / Yuko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt.
Territory of light / Yuko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt.
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Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Uniform title
Call Numbers
G 2019/4888
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Language
English
Japanese
(Language of original)Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
183 pages ; 20 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Territory of light -- The water's edge -- Sunday in the trees -- A dream of birds -- The sound of a voice -- The magic words -- The dunes -- Red lights -- The body -- The earth's surface -- Flames -- Corpuscules of light.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"-- Provided by publisher.
A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone, her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered. With...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Territory of light / Yuko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Notes
General note
"Originally published in Japan in 1979 by Kodansha Ltd., Japan, as Hikari no Ryoubun. English translation rights arranged with the Estate of Yuko Tsushima through Japan UNI Agency, Inc., Tokyo. English translation originally published in 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd., Great Britain."
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
©2018
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2019/4888
Record Identifier
74VKV5rkOOll
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5rkOOll
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ISBN
0374273219 (hardcover)
9780374273217 (hardcover)
DDC
895.635
MMS ID
991024269627602626
