Territory of Light (Penguin Classics) (English Edition)
<p>'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble<br /><br />It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. <i>Territory of Light</i> follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles 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. <br /><br />At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, <i>Territory of Light </i>is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly <i>Gunzo</i>, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time.</p>