Лучшие книги Юко Цусимы

Роман известной японской писательницы Юко Цусима переносит читателя во времена послевоенной разрухи, отчаянной бедности и крушения всех былых общественных устоев - в эпоху, на которую пришлось детство автора, дочери крупнейшего прозаика XX в. Дадзай Осаму. На фоне кричащей нищеты и фрустрации моральных ценностей в разгромленной и униженной стране два подростка отправляются в романтическое путешествие. Их попытка бегства от мрачной действительности с самого начала обречена на неудачу, но неистощимое любопытство и сила мечты влекут беглецов все дальше, в неведомые края... Лирическое повествование Юко Цусима еще раз напоминает читателю о…

It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggled 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.

At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation.

'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and…

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily…

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her.

ピアノ教室の講師をする女は、離婚して娘と暮している。娘は受験を口実に伯母の家に下宿して母親から離れようとしている。体調の変化から、ある日女は妊娠を確信する。戸惑う女が男たちとの過去を振返り自立を決意した時、妊娠は想像だと診断され、深い衝撃を受ける。自立する女の孤独な日常と危うい精神の深淵を〈想像妊娠〉を背景に鮮やかに描く傑作長篇小説。

火の山――とは富士山のこと。その富士山に寄り添いながら生きた有森家の変遷史。誕生と死、愛と結婚の型。戦中戦後を生きた人たちを描きながら、日本の近代を見つめ直した傑作長編小説。