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Autofiction

Paperback by Kanehara, Hitomi

Autofiction

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ISBN:
9781529955613
Publication Date:
4 Sep 2025
Language:
English;Japanese
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Not yet available: due Sep-2025
Autofiction

Description

I always seemed to be imagining my death. 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. The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

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