Yuko Tsushima

An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age Japan, by the author of Territory of Light Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo―but ever since the sudden death of Mitch’s brother, they’ve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of […]

‘Wonderfully poetic … extraordinary freshness … a Virginia Woolf quality’ Margaret Drabble 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 […]