{"product_id":"mild-vertigo-9780811232289","title":"Mild Vertigo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mieko Kanai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811232289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKanai, Mieko:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in 1947, \u003cstrong\u003eMieko Kanai\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e where a young girl puts on a suit made of freshly skinned rabbit fur.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarton, Polly:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePolly Barton\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and Japanese translator based in Bristol. Her translations include Aoko Matsuda's \u003cem\u003eWhere the Wild Ladies Are\u003c\/em\u003e, Kikuko Tsumura's \u003cem\u003eThere's No Such Thing as an Easy Job\u003c\/em\u003e, and Tomoka Shibasaki's \u003cem\u003eSpring Garden\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2019, she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her debut book \u003cem\u003eFifty Sounds\u003c\/em\u003e. Her second book, \u003cem\u003ePorn: An Oral History\u003c\/em\u003e, is forthcoming.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZambreno, Kate:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKate Zambreno\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight books, most recently the novel \u003cem\u003eDrifts\u003c\/em\u003e and a study of Hervé Guibert, \u003cem\u003eTo Write As If Already Dead\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Mieko Kanai \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47629472039069,"sku":"9780811232289","price":29.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7b3ab0cd-8e97-4729-be51-125fd22dd38f.jpg?v=1770189842","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/mild-vertigo-9780811232289","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}