Gifted
- Auteur: Susumi Suzuki (Japan)
- Soort boek: Japanse roman uit 2022, debuutroman
- Engelse vertaling: Allison Markin Powell
- Uitgever: Transit Books
- Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 108 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: $ 18,95
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Susumi Suzuki Gifted recensie, review en informatie
- “Demonstrates that death is the only way forward. Oozes with maternal cruelty.” (Yoko Ogawa)
- “A gleaming pocket knife of a novel stabbing into the heart of maternal abuse, inherited trauma, and the cyclical nature of sex work.” (Mathuson Anthony, Book Club Bar, New York City, NY)
Flaptekst van de debuutroman van de Japanse schrijfster Susumi Suzuki
In the last days of her mother’s life, a young woman living in Tokyo’s red-light district is thrust into a split existence. By day, she negotiates her new role as caregiver of an abusive parent. By night, she drifts home from the hospital, goes out with other sex-workers, thinks about quitting smoking, and numbly remembers Eri, a friend who died the summer before. Her sensitivity to the details of her surroundings grounds an otherwise unstable world, one where each interaction requires a subtle negotiation of economic and sexual power, and proximity rarely means intimacy or connection.
Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted—Suzumi Suzuki’s first novel to be translated into English—offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.