Lit in Translation

Beautiful Distance

美しい距離 · Utsukushii kyori

Nao-Cola Yamazaki (山崎ナオコーラ, born 1978)

Translated by Charlotte Goff

English editions

In English

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A woman in her early forties, owner of a sandwich café, is told her cancer cannot be cured. Her husband, an insurance company employee, keeps his job and spends every free hour at her bedside, where her parents, the people she works with, nurses and doctors come and go. Treading carefully around her mother and the rest of the family, he struggles over how they should use the time left, and wants her to stay part of the working world to the last.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
165 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Japan
First published
2016 by Bungeishunju
Author's age
38 when first published
ISBN

9784163904818 (original)

9781917092623 (Daunt Books, United Kingdom)

9781638932680 (SJP Lit, United States)