Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) When two girls are abducted

When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri

In this addictive and fast-paced thriller

Where there is no dearth and there is no scarcity

How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room

This anthology is a compilation of some of the classic short stories of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century

Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) When two girls are abductedThe Akutagawa Prize winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance. In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would be wife