Overview
Una historia conmovedora y perspicaz que parte del Tokio contemporáneo para hablar del amor, la soledad, la amistad, el asfixiante mundo laboral y la dificultad creciente para alcanzar la realización personal.
Fuyuko Irie es una correctora de pruebas freelance de treinta y tantos años. Vive sola y es incapaz de entablar relaciones significativas, por lo que apenas tiene contacto con nadie más que con Hijiri, su editora. Cuando ve su reflejo, se encuentra con una mujer cansada y sin espíritu que no ha sabido tomar las riendas de su propia vida. Su única fuente de consuelo: la luz. Cada Nochebuena, Fuyuko sale a vislumbrar las luces que llenan la noche de Tokio. Pero es un encuentro fortuito con un hombre llamado Mitsutsuka lo que despierta algo nuevo en ella. Y su vida empieza a cambiar.
Sin embargo, a medida que ese cambio —tan largamente postergado— comienza a suceder, dolorosos episodios del pasado de Fuyuko salen a la superficie, y su comportamiento empieza a desbordarse cada vez más.
Una novela aguda y lúcida, entretenida y conmovedora; hará reír al lector, también lo hará llorar, pero, como solo los mejores libros logran, le recordará que a veces el dolor vale la pena.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A moving, perceptive story set in contemporary Tokyo about love, loneliness, friendship, the crushing work culture, and the increasing difficulty of achieving personal fulfillment.
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. She lives alone and is unable to form meaningful relationships, so she has little contact with anyone beyond Hijiri, her editor. When she looks at her reflection she sees a tired, spiritless woman who has failed to take control of her own life. Her only consolation: the lights. Every Christmas Eve Fuyuko goes out to catch the lights that fill Tokyo’s night. But a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka awakens something new in her. And her life begins to change.
Yet as that long-postponed change starts to occur, painful episodes from Fuyuko’s past surface, and her behavior begins to unravel more and more.
A sharp, lucid novel that is entertaining and moving; it will make readers laugh and it will make them cry, but, as only the best books do, it will remind them that sometimes pain is worth it.
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