num_pages: 158
description: The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.In these three haunting and lyrical stories three young women experience unsettling loss and romance.In a dreamlike adventure one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing.Sensual yearning and filled with the tricks of memory and grief Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales.
language: English
title: Record of a Night Too Brief
publisher: Pushkin Press