SHOOTING GALLERY - Softcover

Tsushima, Yuko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394757432 ISBN 13: 9780394757438

Publisher: Pantheon, 1988

Synopsis

This collection of eight stories deals with the changing role of women in modern-day Japan, touching on the passion, joy, and sorrow associated with newfound freedom and its endless antagonistic relationship with responsibility

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

Review:

“[Tsushima’s heroines share a] hopeless, level gaze which sees everything, the ability (in spite of having seen everything) to go ahead, eyes on the road–it takes a very special and very personal talent to so convincingly display this....[And] here Tsushima has finally found something like perfection in this imperfect world–Geraldine Harcourt’s translations. After the first page, one completely forgets that it is, indeed, a translation one is reading.”
- Donald Richie, The Japan Times

“These are stories that cut deeply, and remain etched into your memory long after the last page. Largely billed as a feminist writer, Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.”
- Kris Kosaka, The Japan Times

“As potent and heady as a dry martini....Tsushima is an archaeologist of the female psyche, reconstructing the burnt nerve endings underneath unprepossessing female exteriors.”
- The Village Voice

“Tsushima is a subtle, surprising, elegant writer who courageously tells unexpected truths about an unfamiliar, yet recognizable world.”
- Margaret Drabble

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0394757432
• ISBN 13: 9780394757438
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138