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I enjoyed Territory of Light and found it sufficiently absorbing, but now I'm finding that I don't have a whole lot to say about it. It's a simple story about motherhood told from the perspective of a newly single woman coming to terms with the failure of her marriage - it's a quiet, meditative work that was originally published in Japanese in 1979, and while I felt that this story's cultural context was readily apparent as I was reading, it does have an introspective universality in its depicti
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4.5 stars. This began slowly for me. There was little to capture my attention in the first "chapter" (the novella collects 12 linked stories as a whole), which mostly attended to the narrator finding an apartment after a marital separation. But gradually the beauty of her poetic insight started to shine through quite literally as the novel plays with light and shadow and dreams and images as a reflection of the interior soul. As someone who was a single divorced mother for 9 years and started of
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Geraldine Harcourt's beautiful translation of Yūko Tsushima's Gunzō magazine installment series. It's about a woman coping first with abandonment, becoming a single mother, then finally divorce -- with the societal, social and personal delights and devastations beautifully drawn. I could feel the stress, guilt, isolation as they finally give way for more hope and freedom and the darkness slowly breaks to let in the light. While her apartment is full of light, it takes a while for the protagonist
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