Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) Where there is no dearth

Where there is no dearth and there is no scarcity

Although they hail from completely different family backgrounds they share a common passion for success and realizing their dreams in life

GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office

unbelievable quality about white: it contains all the colors yet it seems to be colorless

she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family

Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) Where there is no dearthThe Akutagawa Prize winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance. In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would be wife