Record of a Night Too Brief

川上弘美

Original title: 蛇を踏む

earliest edition we have, 1996 Bungei Shunjū, 1999 183 pages

Bunshun bunko

"One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother. So begins the story of a woman trying to live with a snake, with herself, or perhaps with something else all together. This volume includes the three stories Tread on a Snake, Missing, and Record of a Night Too Brief which together won the Akutagawa Prize in 1996. Fille...

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This book in English

Lucy North 2 printings we hold · 2017–2024 · Pushkin Press

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Editions we hold

Record of a Night Too Brief edition · 2024 · Steerforth Press · 9781805331407
Record of a night too brief edition · 2017 · Pushkin Press · 158 pages · 9781782272717
Record of a Night too Brief (Japanese Novellas Book 3) edition · 2017 · Pushkin Press · 158 pages · 9781782272724
Hebi o fumu edition · 1999 · Bungei Shunjū · 183 pages
蛇を踏む edition · 1996 · Bungei Shunju · 169 pages · 9784163165509

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