Record of a night too brief
By: Hiromi Kawakami ; translated by Lucy North
Contributors: North, Lucy, translator
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781782272717
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Hebi o fumu
Description: "One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother. So begins the story of a woman trying to live with a snake, with herself, or perhaps with something else all together. This volume includes the three stories Tread on a Snake, Missing, and Record of a Night Too Brief which together won the Akutagawa Prize in 1996. Filled with fantastically multicoloured images and unexplained collapses in time and place, these highly surreal, meticulously worked stories of longing and disappearance, love and loathing are the work of an enormously talented writer at the top of her game." -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Translation from the Japanese of: Hebi o Fumu.
Table of contents: title: Record of a night too brief (Hebi o Fumu) --; title: Missing (Kieru) --; title: A snake stepped on (Atarayoki).