Ariana Harwicz, Trans. by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff
PositiveThe Guardian (UK)There’s a touch of David Lynch to the best moments, such as when [the narrator] peers dreamily through the window as her child crawls into the fireplace. The lack of character names and sporadic perspective shifts don’t make this an easy read—but then, it isn’t meant to be. \'A breath of irrationality had set fire to my existence,\' [the narrator] says, and you can’t help watching through the glass as it burns.
Yuko Tsushima Trans. by Geraldine Harcourt
PositiveThe GuardianTsushima is honest about her narrator’s difficulties: she boozes, leaves the chores undone and hurls \'vile abuse\' at her two-year-old daughter when woken in the night ... In this short, powerful novel lurk the joy and guilt of single parents everywhere.
