Love at Six Thousand Degrees

Maki Kashimada, Haydn Trowell (trans.)

Love at Six Thousand Degrees
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 April 2024
Pages
128
ISBN
9781787704954

Love at Six Thousand Degrees

Maki Kashimada, Haydn Trowell (trans.)

A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young Russian-Japanese man.

Inspired 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.

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.

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