(Las) E.P.U.B Territory of Light
By Y?ko Tsushima
From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting,
dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important
Japanese writers of her generation." --Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I
was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is
spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo
apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she
struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled
with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she
finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered.
As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she
has lost and what she will become.At once tender and lacerating, luminous and
unsettling, Yuko Tsushima's Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment,
desire, and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the
