Yuko Tsushima

Broschiertes Buch

Child of Fortune

Beschreibung

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. 'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Translated by Geraldine Harcourt

Autor

Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.

Produktdetails

• Japanese Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9780241675274
• ISBN-10: 0241675278
• Artikelnr.: 68166574