Territory of Light
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  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241620243
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.00

Territory of Light

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Paperback
4 Apr 2019
Hardback
6 Jun 2023
EBook
5 Apr 2018
Audiobook
3 Jan 2019
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband. 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 time, and remains one of Yuko Tsushima's most beloved works.
  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241620243
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for Territory of Light

Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality

Margaret Drabble, BBC Radio 3

Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.

Kris Kosaka, Japan Times

Spiky, atmospheric and intimate, filled with moments of strangeness that linger in the mind

The Spectator

In this short, powerful novel lurk the joy and guilt of single parents everywhere

Guardian

This exquisite and poignant novel . . . will resonate with single mothers always and everywhere

Shami Chakrabarti

An extraordinary book . . . cool analytic intelligence propelled by sudden eruptions of passion

Lisa Appignanesi

An astonishing and exquisite masterpiece about love, motherhood, female independence, and the restoration of a damaged family. Yuko Tsushima is an unforgettable name alongside great masters like Virginia Woolf, Alice Munro and Elizabeth Strout

J. M. Lee, author of The Investigation