Hit Parade of Tears

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.

Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.

A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.

Wryly anarchic and deeply imaginative, Suzuki was a writer like no other. These eleven stories offer readers the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work.

About the author

Izumi Suzuki (1949-1986) was a countercultural icon and a pioneer of Japanese science fiction. She worked as a keypunch operator before finding fame as a model and actress, but it was her writing that secured her reputation. She took her own life at the age of thirty-six.

Summary

A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom

Report

Fascinatingly skewy Cal Revely-Calder, best books of 2023 Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Izumi Suzuki
• Assisted by: Sam Bett (Translation), David Boyd (Translation), Daniel Joseph (Translation), Joseph Daniel (Translation), Helen O'Horan (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2023
• EAN: 9781839768491
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-849-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Verso Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary