Yuko Tsushima Territory of Light Hardback Book

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers, designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sundrenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her twoyearold daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband. At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time, and remains one of Yuko Tsushimas most beloved works. Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality Margaret Drabble | Yuko Tsushima Territory of Light Hardback Book