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Mysterious Setting - Couverture souple

Abe, Kazushige

 
9781805330486: Mysterious Setting
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1805330489 ISBN 13 : 9781805330486
Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2024

Synopsis

Shiori knows that she was destined to sing - even if she is completely tone-deaf. Forced to give up her dream of becoming a travelling troubadour, she moves to Tokyo at eighteen to forge a career in music, whatever the cost.

But she quickly becomes isolated in this vast new city, and even the people she calls friends take advantage of her naivety. Then one day, she is entrusted with a secret of enormous power. If she chooses to, she can take revenge on the world.

Shot through with dark irony and a playful sense of the absurd, Mysterious Setting is a propulsive and gloriously strange story of innocence and experience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kazushige Abe is one of Japan's pre-eminent contemporary writers. A graduate of the Japanese Film School in Tokyo, he worked as an assistant director before turning his hand to writing. Since winning the Gunzo New Writers' Prize for his first novel, American Night, he has been awarded several of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, including the Sei Ito Award, the Mainichi Culture Award, the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize.

Michael Emmerich teaches Japanese Literature at UCLA. He is the highly acclaimed translator of twenty books, including Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata's First Snow on Fuji and Dandelions and Banana Yoshimoto's Asleep, Goodbye Tsugumi and Hardboiled & Hard Luck. His scholarly works include The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Shiori knows that she was destined to sing - even if she is completely tone-deaf. Forced to give up her dream of becoming a travelling troubadour, she moves to Tokyo at eighteen to forge a career in music, whatever the cost.

But she quickly becomes isolated in this vast new city, and even the people she calls friends take advantage of her naivety. Then one day, she is entrusted with a secret of enormous power. If she chooses to, she can take revenge on the world.

Shot through with dark irony and a playful sense of the absurd, Mysterious Setting is a propulsive and gloriously strange story of innocence and experience.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Pushkin Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1805330489
ISBN 13 
9781805330486
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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