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Territory of Light
by Yuko Tsushima
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A young woman moves with her two-year-old daughter into a small Tokyo apartment on the fourth floor, a flat flooded with light from windows on every side, in the year after her husband leaves. Across twelve chapters, one for each month, she navigates work, exhaustion, brief affairs, the judgement of neighbours and her own frightening flashes of anger and tenderness toward her child. Tsushima writes interior states with startling honesty and an almost dreamlike attention to water, weather and rooftops. Quietly devastating and oddly hopeful, it is a compact, beautifully translated Japanese classic about remaking a self in public view.
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