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Book

The forest brims over : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION AYAS (CEN)

Edition

First Counterpoint edition.

Publication Information

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2023.

Physical Description

194 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"Nowatari Rui has long been the subject of her husband's novels, depicted as a pure woman who takes great pleasure in sex. With her privacy and identity continually stripped away, she has come to be seen by society first and foremost as the inspiration for her husband's art. When a decade's worth of frustrations reaches its boiling point, Rui consumes a bowl of seeds, and buds and roots begin to sprout all over her body. Instead of taking her to a hospital, her husband keeps her in an aquaterrarium, set to compose a new novel based on this unsettling experience. But Rui grows at a rapid pace and soon breaks away from her husband by turning into a forest-and in time, she takes over the entire city"--

Notes

"Original Japanese edition published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha Ltd. Publishers."--Title page verso.

Subjects

Added Authors

Haydn Trowell