Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami Groundswell Speaker 2024 Ginzburg explores loneliness and belonging

Ginzburg explores loneliness and belonging against the backdrop of post-war Europe

MurdochISBN: 9781922616999Extent: 272 pages

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Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami Groundswell Speaker 2024 Ginzburg explores loneliness and belonging'The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.' 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