- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780241649480
- Length: 288 pages
- Price: £9.99
Wildcat Dome
byYuko Tsushima, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translator)
TLSA brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan... despite the grave subject matter, the novel’s tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda’s expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author’s abundant optimism for human adaptability
Literary ReviewSubtle and engaging, poised somewhere between a character study and a murder mystery
Andrew Durbin, FriezeI will be carrying this extraordinary book with me all summer
About Yuko Tsushima
Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.
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