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Author: Kawakami, Hiromi

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 24 October 2024 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 160 pages
196 x 129 x 15 | 146g

The

Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and

provocative contemporary Japanese

writers

‘The nightingale sang

again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless

variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just

begun.’

In these three haunting and lyrical

stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and

romance.

In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels

through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend,

mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother

whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be

wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to

discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be

concealing.

Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks

of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an

atmospheric trio of unforgettable

tales.

Hiromi Kawakami was

born in Tokyo in 1958. Since the publication of God in 1994, she has written

numerous novels and collections of short stories, including Strange

Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop.

Her most recent novel, Running Water, was published in

Japan in 2014 and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Hiromi Kawakami has

previously been awarded the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, and was

shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her work has been

published in more than twenty languages.