Compact Title: Light Territory

The radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter, is wonderfully poetic, with an extraordinary freshness akin to the quality of Virginia Woolf's work, as described by Margaret Drabble. Territory of Light, a novel comprising twelve chapters, follows the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The narrative is immersed in light, which can be both comforting and perilous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps, and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned, creating a cumulative effect that is disarmingly powerful, leaving bright after-images in the reader's mind for a long time.

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