Child of Fortune
$21.87
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2018
Summary
The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter.
Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering on the edge of tragedy. It covers a year in the life of a single mother with an eleven-year-old daughter, combining a complex interior world with memorably visual imagery. The narrative is patterned with themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.
It follows the course of an unexpected pregnancy which threatens to sever frayed f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241335031 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241335035 |
| Author: | Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 123g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A classic novel as relevant today as when it was published nearly 40 years ago … at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad, Geraldine Harcourt’s elegant translation captures Tsushima’s poignant wisdom on the female struggle with societal expectations.—Japan Timesdepicts the multiple layers of a woman’s consciousness, her fears and longings, her willingness to endure suffering yet resistance to pressures to conform.—The Mountain is Moving
About The Author
Yuko Tsushima
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.
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