{"product_id":"territory-of-light-9781250251053","title":"Territory of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.\" --Foumiko Kometani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . .  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. \u003ci\u003eTerritory of Light \u003c\/i\u003efollows 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 she has 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Yuko Tsushima's \u003ci\u003eTerritory of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of abandonment, desire, and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly \u003ci\u003eGunzo\u003c\/i\u003e, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time. It won the inaugural Noma Literary Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYuko Tsushima\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eShaniku-sai \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eCarnival\u003c\/i\u003e), 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeraldine Harcourt\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded the 1990 Wheatland Translation Prize. She is currently working on two books of Yuko Tsushima's fiction. She lives in New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615511449874,"sku":"9781250251053","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8d9e06d8-6b82-4502-893d-ce32de16b49f.jpg?v=1732492000","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/territory-of-light-9781250251053","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}