Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) GORGIAS debates perennial questions about

GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office

The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate

Where there is no dearth and there is no scarcity

she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family

unbelievable quality about white: it contains all the colors yet it seems to be colorless

Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) GORGIAS debates perennial questions aboutThe Akutagawa Prize winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. 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 whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would be wife