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  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241312629
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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Territory of Light





A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo.

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble

Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time.

  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241312629
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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Wonderfully poetic . . . extraordinary freshness . . . a Virginia Woolf quality

Margaret Drabble
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