Territory of Light -

Yoko Tsushima

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2019

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-10: 0374273219

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 Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time. It won the inaugural Noma Literary Prize.

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4 (Muito bom)

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Esse livro começa com uma sensação estranha que te acompanha até o final da história. Não é um livro triste, mas também não é feliz...
O livro é muito real! Me surpreendi quando vi a data em que foi publicado pois achei que era um livro mais recente. A jornada da protagonista é interessante e me vi ansiosa para saber como seria o desfecho, recomendaria esse livro para outras pessoas, principalmente para quem gosta de histórias que condizem com a realidade e que estão tentando se encontrar no mundo.