Single Sickness and Other Stories by Mizuko Masuda (.ePUB)
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Single Sickness and Other Stories by Mizuko Masuda, Lynne Kutsukake (translator)
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Overview: Let’s open a window onto the intriguing fictional world of award-winning author Masuda Mizuko. Masuda explores themes of female subjectivity and biology, selfhood and autonomy, loneliness and desire, and the deep tensions inherent in female-male relations. The seven stories in this volume tap into a powerful undercurrent of disquiet pervading contemporary urban life. Masuda subtly evokes an air of menace underlying the mundane and a whiff of danger in the domestic.
In “Smoke,” a woman’s violent encounter with a stranger in a stairwell triggers unwanted memories of her former husband and a marriage gone wrong. In “Water,” a leak in the apartment below brings a young woman into conflict with her belligerent male neighbor. In “Horn,” a middle-aged spinster inexplicably sprouts a horn in the center of her forehead. In the title story, “Single Sickness,” a female cancer researcher in a male-dominated medical laboratory has been made cynical by her constant battle against sexism. Her hard protective shell is broken by the sudden discovery of a lump in her breast, and she is forced to confront issues of independence, isolation, maternity and sexuality.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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