Yuko Tsushima

Es primavera y una mujer, abandonada por su marido, decide comenzar una nueva vida junto con su hija de dos años, que no entiende por qué no puede seguir viendo a su padre. Perdida en una Tokio inmensa, la mujer alquila un piso lleno de ventanas donde vivira durante los doce meses posteriores a la ruptura, enfrentandose a la maternidad en solitario y tratando de escapar de la oscuridad que la acecha a pesar de vivir rodeada de luz. Una luz que adopta distintas formas, a veces reconfortante y a veces amenazadora, colandose por las ventanas como rayos de sol o fuegos artificiales. El periplo vital de una mujer que, con el paso de las estaciones, emprende la busqueda de la felicidad perdida. Una novela que Margaret Drabble considero equiparable a las mejores obras de Virginia Woolf.

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret DrabbleTerritory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time afterwards.

Una bibliotecaria es testigo de cómo, junto con el invierno, también su matrimonio se acaba. Su marido le ha pedido que se separen, y ella se ve obligada a comenzar una nueva vida con su hija de dos años, que no entiende por que las cosas no pueden seguir como antes. Perdida en una Tokio inabarcable, la mujer alquila un piso lleno de ventanas en el que se refugiara durante un año, tratando de escapar de la oscuridad que la acecha a pesar de estar rodeada de luz. Una luz que adopta distintas formas: la del sol que entra por las ventanas, la que ilumina el parque, la de los lejanos fuegos artificiales, la de las deslumbrantes aguas de las inundaciones, las farolas y unas misteriosas explosiones. Una luz que la acompañara mientras se enfrenta a la maternidad en solitario, a la condena social, al desengaño y a la devastacion del amor no correspondido.Ganadora del prestigioso Premio Noma, Territorio de luz es una de las novelas japonesas mas reveladoras e influyentes de las ultimas decadas. Una historia tierna y a la vez inquietante sobre el abandono, el deseo y la transformacion, que Margaret Drabble considero equiparable en calidad a cualquier obra de Virginia Woolf.

A terrific novel' Angela Carter 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. Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a woman's innermost fears and desires. 'As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad' Japan Times

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. Takikos first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other womenin the hospital, in her sons nurserybut as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.

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 fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Dans un Japon bucolique, une femme affronte seule la grossesse et la maternité, et court vers sa liberté. Le roman-phare de Yuko Tsushima, grande autrice enfin rééditée. Tokyo, 1980. La jeune Takiko part accoucher au petit matin dans lhopital le plus proche. Sa grossesse, fruit dune liaison avec un collegue marie, est la source dune terrible honte pour ses parents. Desormais seule avec son enfant, Takiko decouvre les joies de la maternite, dun petit etre quelle aime contre tout, mais se confronte aussi a la difficulte detre une mere celibataire qui doit subvenir seule a leurs besoins. En un an, riche en rencontres et en decisions qui changeront sa vie, Takiko va se reveler a elle-meme, au coeur de Tokyo et dune nature pleine de promesses. Dune ecriture delicate qui noblitere rien de la dure condition des femmes au Japon, Yuko Tsushima, a linstar dAnnie Ernaux avec qui elle a correspondu, a cree durant sa vie une oeuvre litteraire moderne et engagee, qui touche a la vie intime des femmes, a la beaute de lenfance et de la vie familiale japonaise, dans ses douceurs et ses tourments enfouis. Une autrice qui a marque la litterature japonaise, redecouverte par une nouvelle generation de lecteurs. Femme qui court dans la montagne est aujourdhui reedite dans le monde entier, preface par Lauren Groff.

A terrific novel Angela CarterKoko wont do what is expected of her. Defying her familys 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.Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a womans innermost fears and desires.As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sadJapan Times

Mitch and Yonko havent spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyobut ever since the sudden death of Mitchs brother, theyve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster.Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that theyve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but its all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.Yuko Tsushimas sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the trutha tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.Japan Times

Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality Margaret DrabbleIt 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 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. At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time.There is something deeply seductive about being drawn into the intimate thoughts of a woman who otherwise would tell them to no one. [ . . . ] This portrait of an imperfect mother who strives to provide a good life for her child feels painfully relevant. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Premio Joryū Bungaku, 1978. Vuelve la autora de «Territorio de luz» con una historia dolorosamente veraz en su descripción de la feminidad y la maternidad japonesas.Koko siempre ha vivido en el prese

Premio Jory? Bungaku, 1978. Vuelve la autora de «Territorio de luz» con una historia dolorosamente veraz en su descripción de la feminidad y la maternidad japonesas. Koko siempre ha vivido en el pres

Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time.