Description 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.
She lives in New Zealand..
She is currently working on two books of Yuko Tsushima\'s fiction.
Geraldine Harcourt was awarded the 1990 Wheatland Translation Prize.
She died in 2016.
She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983), and the Tanizaki Prize (1998).
Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four.
About the Author Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old.
It won the inaugural Noma Literary Prize.
It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time.
At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Yuko Tsushima\'s Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire, and transformation.
As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become.
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.
Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone.
A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment.
It is spring. . .
But I could no longer go back .
Description 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
