Юко Цусима – лучшие книги

Роман известной японской писательницы Юко Цусима переносит читателя во времена послевоенной разрухи, отчаянной бедности и крушения всех былых общественных устоев - в эпоху, на которую пришлось детство автора, дочери крупнейшего прозаика XX в. Дадзай Осаму. На фоне кричащей нищеты и фрустрации моральных ценностей в разгромленной и униженной стране два подростка отправляются в романтическое путешествие. Их попытка бегства от мрачной действительности с самого начала обречена на неудачу, но неистощимое любопытство и сила мечты влекут беглецов все дальше, в неведомые края... Лирическое повествование Юко Цусима еще раз напоминает читателю о…

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 struggled to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright you have to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness; becoming unstable, untethered. As the months come and go, and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become.

At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation.

'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.

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