Love at Six Thousand Degrees

A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young man. Inspired by Marguerite Durass screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour, it is a literary highwire act by a unique voice in contemporary. Japanese fiction.

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Known for her daring prose style, Maki Kashimada is the author of Two, which won the 1998 Bungei Prize, and Touring the Land of the Dead (Europa, 2021), winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Love at Six Thousand Degrees was awarded the Yukio Mishima Prize.

Haydn Trowell is a literary translator who specializes in contemporary Japanese fiction, and the translator of Maki Kashimada's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Touring the Land of the Dead (Europa, 2021). He holds a doctorate in translation studies and literary stylistics from Monash University, Australia.