Yuko Tsushima
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.
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Territory of Light
- By: Yuko Tsushima
- Narrator: Rina Takasaki
- Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 12, 2019
- Language: English
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From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling audiobook of loss and rebirth.
“Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” –Foumiko Kometani, The New York... Read more
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