Hitomi Kanehara Autofiction recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Japanse roman uit 2006. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt als Vintage Classics Weird Girls de Engelse vertaling van 金原 ひとみ, de roman van de uit Japan afkomstige schrijfster Hitomi Kanehara. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Hitomi Kanehara Autofiction recensie en review
- “Hitomi Kanehara is one of international fiction’s most startling new voices… her anatomisation of a disturbed mind renders every description unique… this autofiction is the most elegant postmodern escape act by a contemporary novelist yet.” (Independent)
- “Kanehara is an instant star.” (International Herald Tribune)
Autofiction
- Auteur: Hitomi Kanehara (Japan)
- Soort boek: Japanse roman
- Origineel: 金原 ひとみ (2006)
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
- Omvang: 224 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Japanse schrijfster Hitomi Kanehara
Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She’s madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control the phrase ‘madly in love’ takes on a more sinister meaning.
Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara’s sensational novel, Autofiction, follows Rin’s life backwards through time from this moment so that we see her when she is eighteen, sixteen and finally fifteen, and a picture of the dark core and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually develops.
Hitomi Kanehara was born on 8 August 1983 in Tokyo, Japan. Sheis the author of Snakes and Earrings which won the top Japanese literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. One of the judges, celebrated writer Ryu Murakami, said her book was ‘easily the top choice, receiving the highest marks of any work since I became a member of the selection panel’. The Japanese edition of Snakes and Earrings has since topped bestseller lists and sold over a million copies.