Lee Langley

Adrift in Tokyo

The guilt felt by an abandoned young woman as she and her toddler struggle to survive is the painful subject of Yuko Tsushima’s novel

  • Territory of Light

    Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt

    Penguin, pp. 121

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