Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) GORGIAS debates perennial questions about

GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office

Although they hail from completely different family backgrounds they share a common passion for success and realizing their dreams in life

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

were well practised at falling out with each other

When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri

Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator) GORGIAS debates perennial questions aboutThe 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