Yuko Tsushima – författare

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, read by Rina Takasaki.Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator''s separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time afterwards.

An epic novel of postwar Japan—a powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-telling—by the author of Territory of Light. Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo—but ever since the sudden death of Mitch’s brother, they’ve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster. Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they’ve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it’s all around them. Like history, it repeats itself. Yuko Tsushima’s sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the truth—a tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.

Premio Joryū Bungaku, 1978. Vuelve la autora de «Territorio de luz» con una historia dolorosamente veraz en su descripción de la feminidad y la maternidad japonesas.

Koko siempre ha vivido en el presente. Afronta cada día sin mirar atrás. Pese a las presiones de su familia, se fue a vivir a un piso con su novio. Ha criado ella sola a una niña de once años mientras sobrevive dando clases particulares de piano. Mientras tanto, la sospecha de un nuevo embarazo despierta en su interior viejos anhelos, culpas eternas y esperanzas ocultas. Yuko Tsushima pone a prueba las convenciones sobre la independencia y la memoria, y nos ofrece un asfixiante baile de máscaras donde familiares, amigos y amantes se empeñan en tener la última palabra sobre cómo deberían vivir la vida las mujeres.

CRÍTICA

«Women''s Literature Prize en 1978, Yuko Tsushima defiende en esta novela el derecho a vivir como se quiera.» —Gonzalo Torné, La lecturta

«Una novela que explora la soledad, la sexualidad, la necesidad de amor y los lazos familiares en medio de la desolación de neón de Tokio.» —Angela Carter

«La prosa de Tsushima es tan desnuda y vívida que incluso los detalles banales adquieren una vitalidad visceral... Una historia que se sumerge de forma inquietante en la vida de las mujeres, sin sentimentalismo ni autocompasión.» —Margaret Drabble

«Tan relevante hoy como cuando se publicó... a la vez poderosamente edificante y dolorosamente triste.» —Japan Times