Author: Kawakami, Hiromi Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 24 October 2024 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 160 pages196 x 129 x 15 | 146g TheAkutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded andprovocative contemporary Japanesewriters'The nightingale sangagain. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaselessvariety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only justbegun.'In these three haunting and lyricalstories, three young women experience unsettling loss andromance.In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travelsthrough an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend,mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brotherwhom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-bewife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl todiscover the snake-families everyone else seems to beconcealing.Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricksof memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is anatmospheric trio of unforgettabletales.Hiromi Kawakami wasborn in Tokyo in 1958. Since the publication of God in 1994, she has writtennumerous novels and collections of short stories, including StrangeWeather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop.Her most recent novel, Running Water, was published inJapan in 2014 and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Hiromi Kawakami haspreviously been awarded the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, and wasshortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her work has beenpublished in more than twenty languages.
