num_pages: 149
description: 'Hardboiled' opens as the narrator, a woman in her 30s, treks high above her secluded mountain hotel. There she confronts the fears and the sense of loss that haunt her. In 'Hard Luck', we find another female narrator, this one keeping vigil by the side of her sister who lies in a coma.
language: English
title: Hardboiled Hard Luck
titlecomplete: Hardboiled Hard Luck (Spanish Edition)
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Asia, Short Stories, Japan, Japanese Literature, Asian Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5894
publisher: Faber & Faber