Of Dogs And Walls (Mini Modern Classics)

Author: Yuko Tsushima

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  • : $2.50 AUD
  • : 9780241339787
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : January 2018
  • : 2.5
  • : February 2018
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  • : Yuko Tsushima
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Barcode 9780241339787
9780241339787

Description

Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'

In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.

Author description

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.