Lee Langley

Adrift in Tokyo

The guilt felt by an abandoned young woman as she and her toddler struggle to survive is the painful subject of Yuko Tsushima’s novel

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    Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt

    Penguin, pp. 121

Before her death two years ago, Yuko Tsushima was a powerful voice in Japanese literature; a strong candidate for the Nobel. The New York Times rated her ‘one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation’.

Tsushima relentlessly quarried her damaged life for her work: she was brought up by her mother after her writer father committed suicide.

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