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Natsuo Kirino - Goddess Chronicle, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Goddess Chronicle

Av Natsuo Kirino

Del i serien Canons

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Beskrivning
On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.But what will happen when she returns to the island?Based on the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi, The Goddess Chronicle is a fantastical tour de force about ferocious love and bitter revenge.The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-09-02
  • Mått: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 182 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canons
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781786899170
  • Översättare: Rebecca Copeland
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Natsuo Kirino is a leading figure in Japanese crime fiction. A prolific writer, she is most famous for her 1998 novel Out, which received the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction, Japan's top mystery award, and was a finalist (in translation) for the 2004 Edgar Best Novel Award.Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, where her research and teaching focuses on women, gender and translation studies. She also translated Kirino's 2003 novel Grotesque.

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Kirino's retelling is a taut, disturbing and timeless tale, filled with rage and pathos for the battles that women have to fight every day, battles which have, apparently, existed from the moment of creation

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