- Fiction, Kitchens, Literatura japonesa, Japanese Short stories
A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect.
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Contemporary, intimate, spare and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- 吉本 ばなな
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 155
- Publisher
- Fukutake Shoten, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Tusquets
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780571170159
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