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"One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother. So begins the story of a woman trying to live with a snake, with herself, or perhaps with something else all together. This volume includes the three stories Tread on a Snake, Missing, and Record of a Night Too Brief which together won the Akutagawa Prize in 1996. Filled with fantastically multicoloured images and unexplained collapses in time and place, these highly surreal, meticulously worked stories of longing and disappearance, love and…
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5 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2024Record of a Night Too BriefSteerforth Press · 9781805331407
- Other · English · 2017Record of a night too briefPushkin Press · 158 pages · 9781782272717
- Other · English · 2017Record of a Night too Brief (Japanese Novellas Book 3)Pushkin Press · 158 pages · 9781782272724
- Other · Japanese · 1999Hebi o fumuBungei Shunjū · 183 pages · 9784167631017
- Other · Japanese · 1996Bungei Shunju · 169 pages · 9784163165509
Translations into EnglishFiction, short stories (single author)