Wildcat Dome

Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they''ve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it''s all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.

Yuko Tsushima''s sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the truth--a tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.

''Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.'' Japan Times<>

About the author

Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo, raised in Texas, she is the co-translator of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Kappa (New Directions, 2023). She lives in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Yuko Tsushima, Tsushima Yuko
• Assisted by: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 04.04.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780241649466
• ISBN: 978-0-241-64946-6
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions (packing): 13.6 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm
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