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Foreign Literature
[Introduction to Contents]
What should I call this pain?
A masterpiece novel that vividly describes the theme of "abortion".
A precarious part-time university lecturer, Dorothy experiences unexpected bleeding in the library toilet. She cannot tell her best friend or mother that she has had a miscarriage. She gives lectures at university, goes to therapy, and visits the department of obstetrics and gynecology, but no matter where she is or what she is doing, she feels that the world doesn't recognize her. Over the last month and a half of the year since the end of March, she manages to get along with the mysterious occurrence of "abortion" in her body through her intelligence.
"Time" Selected as the Top 10 Fiction of the Year (2021)!
Contents
End of March
Next day
Five days
Weeks
Saturday night
Ten days
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Letter to Japanese Readers
After receiving a PhD in English literature from Columbia University in 2014, she has published five short novels in literary magazines such as The Paris Review, n + 1, and Vice.
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Author's Profile
After receiving a PhD in English literature from Columbia University, she has published numerous reviews and essays in literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Bookforum, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's Magazine. She now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.