Mild Vertigo by Kanai, Mieko
Mild Vertigo by Kanai, Mieko

Mild Vertigo

The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she...
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Author: Mieko Kanai
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $29.06
Mild Vertigo by Kanai, Mieko

Mild Vertigo

$55.99 $29.06
Mild Vertigo by Kanai, Mieko

Mild Vertigo

$55.99 $29.06
Author: Mieko Kanai
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing her conversations and interactions with her family and friends as they blend seamlessly into her own infernally buzzing internal monologue, Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home, where both everything and nothing happens.

With shades of Clarice Lispector, Elena Ferrante, and Kobo Abe, this verbally acrobatic novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and critic Mieko Kanai--whose work enjoys a cult status in Japan--is a disconcerting and radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage capitalist society.



Author: Mieko Kanai
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780811232289


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2023

About the Author
Kanai, Mieko: - Born in 1947, Mieko Kanai is a novelist, poet, essayist, and critic. She has published around thirty novels and short story collections, and her critical essays have been featured in Japanese newspapers and magazines for almost fifty years. In the English-speaking world, she is perhaps best known for her story "Rabbits," a gory retelling of Alice in Wonderland where a young girl puts on a suit made of freshly skinned rabbit fur.Barton, Polly: - Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese translator based in Bristol. Her translations include Aoko Matsuda's Where the Wild Ladies Are, Kikuko Tsumura's There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job, and Tomoka Shibasaki's Spring Garden. In 2019, she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her debut book Fifty Sounds. Her second book, Porn: An Oral History, is forthcoming.Zambreno, Kate: - Kate Zambreno is the author of eight books, most recently the novel Drifts and a study of Hervé Guibert, To Write As If Already Dead.
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