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20241202183840.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781805331407 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Prism Books, Kadavanthra |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
F |
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HIR/RE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hiromi Kawakami |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
RECORD OF NIGHT TOO BRIEF |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Pushkin Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
158 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
“Evocative… Astonishing, strange, and wonderful” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<br/><br/>A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearances<br/><br/>Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, from the celebrated author of Strange Weather in Tokyo<br/><br/>In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance.<br/><br/>The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.<br/><br/>A woman travels through an unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, monsters of the mist and a monkey who shows no mercy. A sister mourns her brother, who is visible only to her, while her family welcome his would-be wife into their home. One morning, a woman treads on a snake in the park. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother…<br/><br/>Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prestigious literary award.<br/><br/>reveal a highly surreal, meticulously crafted exploration of the many facets of desire, loss and fantasy.<br/><br/>Part of Pushkin’s Japanese Novella series: stylishly designed editions of the best of contemporary Japanese fiction, featuring celebrated, prize-winning authors including Mieko Kawakami, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Fujino and Natsuko Imamura.<br/><br/> |
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3 stories in this collection:<br/><br/> 1. Record of a Night Too Brief<br/> 2. Missing<br/> 3. A Snake Stepped On |
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Japanese fiction |
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Fiction |
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Novel |
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| Personal name |
Lucy North (tr.) |
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David Karashima (ed.) |
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Michael Emmerich (ed.) |
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Elmer Luke (ed.) |
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Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |