The Woman in the Purple Skirt
(Sprache: Englisch)
Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.
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Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.
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'Chilling.' Vogue'As unusual as it is alluring.' Elle
'Delightfully disturbing.' Refinery 29
'Very powerful.' Sayaka Murata
'Disquieting.' Paula Hawkins
'You will be obsessed.' Leila Slimani
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn't a stalker - it's much more complicated than that.
Autoren-Porträt von Natsuko Imamura
Natsuko Imamura was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1980. Her fiction has won various prestigious Japanese literary prizes, including the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize. She lives in Osaka with her husband and daughter. North, LucyLucy North is a British translator of Japanese fiction and non-fiction. Her translations include The Woman in the Purple Skirt, published in 2021, Toddler Hunting and Other Stories, as yet the sole book of fiction in English by Taeko Kono, and Record of a Night Too Brief, a collection of stories by Hiromi Kawakami. Her fiction translations have appeared in Granta, Words Without Borders, and The Southern Review and in several anthologies, including The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. She lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Natsuko Imamura
- 2021, Main, 224 Seiten, Maße: 13,8 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Lucy North
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571364675
- ISBN-13: 9780571364671
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A chilling tale of envy and vulnerability. Clear space on your reading list now. Vogue
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