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Territory of Light

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Pub Date 5 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 11 Sep 2019

Penguin Books (UK) | Penguin Classics

General Fiction (Adult) | Women's Fiction

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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 afterwards.

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...

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Advance Praise

"Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity". - Kris Kosaka, Japan Times

"Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality" - Margaret Drabble, BBC Radio 3

"Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity". - Kris Kosaka, Japan Times

"Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary...

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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780241312193
PRICE £9.99 (GBP)
PAGES 128

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