Wildcat Dome

Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo-but ever since the sudden death of Mitch's brother, they've 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 they've kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it's all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.Yuko Tsushima's 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 truth-a 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

An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age Japan, by the author of Territory of Light<BR><BR>Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo-but ever since the sudden death of Mitch's brother, they've 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.<BR><BR>Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they've kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it's all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.<BR><BR>Yuko Tsushima's 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 truth-a tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.<BR><BR>'Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.' Japan Times

Das vergessene Meisterwerk einer großen japanischen Autorin Yuko Tsushima gewann in ihrer Heimat zahlreiche Preise, ihr Werk wurde in zwölf Sprachen übersetzt. Mit ¿ Räume des Lichts¿ wird sie nun endlich auch hierzulande wiederentdeckt. Der 1979 erstmals erschienene Roman ist ein zeitloses Meisterwerk über Liebe, Mutterschaft und den Kampf um die Kontrolle über das eigene Leben. Es ist die einzige Wohnung, die sie finden kann: die letzte Etage eines Bürogebäudes mit lichtdurchfluteten Räumen. Nachdem ihr Mann sein Leben allein weiterführen und sie mit ihrer zweijährigen Tochter nicht in den Haushalt der Mutter zurückkehren will, zieht sie kurzerhand dort ein. Während sie ein Matratzenlager baut, wirft das Mädchen Spielzeuge aus dem Fenster. Während sie zu verhindern versucht, dass ein Netz vor den Fenstern angebracht wird, plagen ihre Tochter Albträume. Während sie ihr Kind in den Armen hält, wünscht sie sich, ebenfalls von jemandem in den Arm genommen zu werden. Immer wieder verliert sie die Bodenhaftung, wenn ihr Chef keine weiteren Krankheitstage zulässt, wenn ihr Noch-Ehemann von einer Scheidung nichts wissen will, wenn ihre Wut sie in die Bar treibt, während ihre Tochter in der Wohnung schläft. Aber dann sind da auch die Dachterrasse, die sich nach einem Wasserschaden in einen Pool verwandelt, das Volksfest mit Feuerwerk und Zuckerwatte, das Licht um sie herum - und der tiefe Wunsch, ihr Leben Stück für Stück neu zusammenzusetzen.

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.<BR><BR>Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.<BR><BR>Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband. 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, and remains one of Yuko Tsushima's most beloved works.<BR><BR>'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble

The eight powerful stories of The Shooting Gallery examine the lives of single women coping with motherhood, passion, jealousy, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment.An unwed mother arranges for her children to meet their father, who is a stranger to them. A woman confronts the "other woman" in her lover's life. A young single mother on an outing to the seaside comes face to face with how much she resents her own children. Another woman tries desperately to hold on to a private life despite her controlling male relatives.

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.<BR><BR>'A terrific novel' Angela Carter<BR><BR>Translated by Geraldine Harcourt