Gifted
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Produktnummer:
9798893389005
A subtle and intimate accounting of a daughter's final days with her mother, set amid the rush of Tokyo's red-light district.Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted--Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English--offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.In the last days of her mother's life, a young woman living in Tokyo's red-light district is thrust into a split existence. By day, she negotiates her new role as caregiver of an abusive parent. By night, she drifts home from the hospital, goes out with other sex-workers, thinks about quitting smoking, and numbly remembers Eri, a friend who died the summer before. Her sensitivity to the details of her surroundings grounds an otherwise unstable world, one where each interaction requires a subtle negotiation of economic and sexual power, and proximity rarely means intimacy or connection. Gifted was nominated for the 167th Akutagawa Prize in 2022.
| Autor: | Suzuki, Suzumi |
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| EAN: | 9798893389005 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 120 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Transit Books |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.10.2024 |
| Schlagworte: | Fiction - General |
| Größe: | 9 × 129 × 198 |
| Gewicht: | 140 g |
| Übersetzer: | Powell, Allison Markin |
