An innovative feminist novel about motherhood and girlhood. Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her. Translated by Geraldine Harcourt.
Yuko Tsushima
Title :9780241675274
ISBN :9780241675274
Publisher :Penguin Classics UK
Pages :160
Age :
Pub date :
Nov 2, 2023, 08:00 AM
C m s pub date :
Jan 9, 2024, 08:00 AM
Length :199
Width :130
Sort priority :2
An innovative feminist novel about motherhood and girlhood. Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her. Translated by Geraldine Harcourt.
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