Record of a Night Too Brief

Copyright

Series Editors: David Karashima and Michael Emmerich

Translation Editor: Elmer Luke

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HEBI O FUMU © Hiromi Kawakami, 1996

English language translation © Lucy North 2017

Record of a Night Too Brief was first published as Hebi o Fumu in 1996

First published by Pushkin Press in 2017

Parts of “Record of a Night Too Brief” appeared, in slightly different form, in Words without Borders, July 2012.

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Centre for Literary Translation and the Nippon Foundation

ISBN 9781782272724

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