Description
Title: Mud of a Century, The: winner of the Akutagawa Ptize
Author: ISHII YUKA
Illustrator: TROWELL HAYDN (TRANSLATOR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 11/04/2023
Imprint: GAZEBO BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Yuka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.
Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT company as a language instructor finds herself caught up in a deluge of flashbacks and memories, reflecting on unspoken words and unlived lives and contemplating the muddy chaos of her own karma.
Told in a magic realist stream-of-consciousness style evocative of the subtle, wry sense of humour found in the traditional Japanese narrative art of rakugo, The Mud of a Century explores the interrelated bonds between self and other, Japan and India, past and present, fact and fantasy, and material and spirit.
ISBN: 9780648901198
Dimension: 215mm X 130mm
Edition: 01