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The Mud of a Century

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Mud of a Century

Contributors:

By (Author) Yka Ishii
Translated by Haydn Trowell

ISBN:

9780648901198

Publisher:

Gazebo Books

Imprint:

Gazebo Books

Publication Date:

1st September 2023

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

120

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 215mm

Description

Yka Ishiis debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.

Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT company as a language instructor finds herself caught up in a deluge of flashbacks and memories, reflecting on unspoken words and unlived lives and contemplating the muddy chaos of her own karma.

Told in a magic realist stream-of-consciousness style evocative of the subtle, wry sense of humour found in the traditional Japanese narrative art of rakugo, The Mud of a Century explores the interrelated bonds between self and other, Japan and India, past and present, fact and fantasy, and material and spirit.

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