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A single mother hits rock bottom in Tokyo: Territory of Light reviewed

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

Before her death two years ago, Yuko Tsushima was a powerful voice in Japanese literature; a strong candidate for the Nobel. The New York Times rated her ‘one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation’.

Tsushima relentlessly quarried her damaged life for her work: she was brought up by her mother after her writer father committed suicide.

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