Yuko Tsushima

• Mar-1988
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This collection of eight stories deals with the changing role of women in modern-day Japan, touching on the passion, joy, and sorrow associated with newfound freedom and its endless antagonistic relationship with responsibility...

• Mar-1991
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Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs ...

• Jan-2011
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• Feb-2018
• / Literary
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'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.Penguin Modern: fi...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth“Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” -- Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I was puzzled...

• Aug-2018
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'A terrific novel' Angela CarterKoko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will ...