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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a...
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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a series of darkly comic domestic disasters that lead her to question whether she is worthy of love Twenty-five-year-old Yasuko has been living with her kind but apathetic boyfriend Tsunaki for three years. During this time, she has battled waves of depression and hypersomnia, staying in bed for days on end, mired in ennui. When Tsunaki begins working longer hours, Yasuko tries to take over some of the house chores in the hope of breaking out of her rut, but cannot even manage to cook dinner without ending up sobbing in a pitch-black hallway. Any attempt to get her life together seems only to highlight Yasuko's brokenness. As everything threatens to fall apart, she makes a spectacular last-ditch effort to wrench Tsunaki out of his indifference and find something to ground her in the world. Radical, comical, and energetic, Love at Least is a sincere and compelling story of a young woman searching for connection.
Author: Yukiko Motoya
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 09/08/2026
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781593768317
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2026
About the Author
YUKIKO MOTOYA is the author of The Lonesome Bodybuilder. She won the Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016, the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; and the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014. KAMIL SPYCHALSKI is a Japanese-English translator and the winner of the 7th JLPP International Translation Competition. His translations include Taiyo Fujii's "Prayer," which appeared in The Best of World SF Volume 1 (Head of Zeus), and Summer's Passage, a prize-winning novella by Kenji Maruyama. He lives in Fukuoka.
Author: Yukiko Motoya
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 09/08/2026
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781593768317
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2026
About the Author
YUKIKO MOTOYA is the author of The Lonesome Bodybuilder. She won the Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016, the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; and the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014. KAMIL SPYCHALSKI is a Japanese-English translator and the winner of the 7th JLPP International Translation Competition. His translations include Taiyo Fujii's "Prayer," which appeared in The Best of World SF Volume 1 (Head of Zeus), and Summer's Passage, a prize-winning novella by Kenji Maruyama. He lives in Fukuoka.
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