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

issue 28 April 2018

  • Territory of Light

    Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt

    Penguin, pp. 121

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