So We Look to the Sky (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2021-12-23
Förlag
Skyhorse Publishing
Översättare
Polly Barton
Dimensioner
211 x 140 x 25 mm
Vikt
409 g
ISBN
9781951627713

So We Look to the Sky

A Novel

av Misumi Kubo
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2021-12-23
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This shocking, boisterous novel was a runaway bestseller and award winner in Japan "Pressingly real . . . In these pages, you will find the lives of all of us"-Japan Times Searingly honest and sexually explicit, So We Look to the Sky is a novel told in five linked stories that begin with an affair between a student, Takumi, and a woman ten years his senior. Their scandalous liaison, which the woman's husband makes public by posting a secretly taped video online, frames all of the stories, each exploring different aspects of the passages of life and the hardships ordinary people face. A teenager experimenting with sex and then, perhaps, experiencing love and loss; a young, anime-obsessed wife bullied by her mother-in-law to produce the child she and her husband cannot conceive; a high school girl, spurned by Takumi, realizing that being cute and fertile is all others expect of her; Takumi's best friend, who lives in the projects and is left alone to support and care for his voracious, senile grandmother; and Takumi's mother, a divorced single parent and midwife, who guides women bringing new life into this world and must rescue her son, crushed by the twin blows of public humiliation and loss, from giving up on his own. Narrating each story in the distinctive voice of its protagonist, Misumi Kubo weaves themes including sex, love, the female body, gossip, and the bullying that leaves young people feeling burdened and helpless into a profoundly original novel that stays with you for its affirmation of the raw, unstoppable force of life.
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Misumi Kubo¿withdrew from junior college and worked for an advertising company before turning freelance as a writer and editor. She is the author of seven novels. She won the R-18 Literature Prize in 2009 for the short story that became the first chapter of¿So We Look to the Sky,¿her debut novel,¿which won the Yamamoto Sh?gor? Prize, placed second in the voting for the Japan Booksellers' Award, and was a runaway bestseller.¿Her next novel,¿Stray Whale on a Sunny Day,¿won the Futaro Yamada Prize, and in 2018,¿Staring at Our Hands¿was shortlisted for the Naoki Prize.¿She lives in Japan. Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese fiction and nonfiction. She has translated short stories for¿Words Without Borders, the¿White Review,¿and¿GRANTA. Full-length translations include¿Where the Wild Ladies Are¿by Matsuda Aoko,¿Spring Garden¿by Tomoka Shibasaki, and¿There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job¿by Kikuko Tsumura. After being awarded the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, she has written a memoir about her experiences learning and translating Japanese, entitled¿Fifty Sounds. She lives in the UK.

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