Love at six thousand degrees /
| Author / Creator: | Kashimada, Maki, 1976- author. |
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| Uniform title: | 6000-do no ai. English |
| Imprint: | New York : Europa Editions, 2023. ©2023 |
| Description: | 127 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13011892 |
| Summary: | WINNER OF THE MISHIMA YUKIO PRIZE An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young half-Russian, half-Japanese man. Inspired by Marguerite Duras's screenplay for "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," this novel is a further demonstration of Kashimada's distinctive literary style and technique and her commitment to plumbing the depths of her characters' psychology. Dealing with the travails and traumas of history, with gendered identity, with the tension between private and public selves, Love at Six Thousand Degrees is a distinctive and intriguing novel by one of Japan's most unique contemporary authors. |
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| Item Description: | "Original Japanese edition published by SHINCHOSA Publishing Co., Ltd."--Title page verso. "Original title: 6000-DO NO AI"--Title page verso. "Inspired partly by Marguerite Duras's screenplay for 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour,' this novel is an undeniable demonstration of Kashimada's distinctive voice, the polish and precision of her literary style, and her dedication to plumbing the depths of her characters' psychology and situations. Thrilling and poised in equal measure, dealing with the travails of history, with gendered identity, and with the tension between private and public selves, Love at Six Thousand Degrees is a literary highwire act by one of the most unique voices in contemporary Japanese fiction."--Provided by publisher. |
| Physical Description: | 127 pages ; 22 cm |
| Awards: | Yukio Mishima Prize, 2005 |
| ISBN: | 9781609458195 1609458192 |
