{"product_id":"9781805331407","title":"Record of a Night Too Brief","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Kawakami, Hiromi \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 October 2024 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 160 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 129 x 15 | 146g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprovocative contemporary Japanese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The nightingale sang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eagain. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evariety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebegun.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these three haunting and lyrical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estories, three young women experience unsettling loss and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eromance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscover the snake-families everyone else seems to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econcealing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof memory and grief, \u003cem\u003eRecord of a Night Too Brief\u003c\/em\u003e is an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eatmospheric trio of unforgettable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHiromi Kawakami\u003c\/strong\u003e was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eborn in Tokyo in 1958. Since the publication of God in 1994, she has written\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enumerous novels and collections of short stories, including \u003cem\u003eStrange\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeather in Tokyo and \u003cem\u003eThe Nakano Thrift Shop\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer most recent novel, \u003cem\u003eRunning Water\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan in 2014 and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Hiromi Kawakami has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epreviously been awarded the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, and was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e Foreign Fiction Prize. Her work has been\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epublished in more than twenty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49397633155408,"sku":"9781805331407","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781805331407.jpg?v=1729262383","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781805331407","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}