Translated Fiction Book Club: "Mild Vertigo" by Mieko Kanai
Schedule
Thu Jun 20 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
Greedy Reads Remington | Baltimore, MD
About this Event
Hosted by manager Emily Miller, our Translated Fiction Book Club typically meets on the third Thursday of the month in our Remington store!
ABOUT MILD VERTIGO:
The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing her conversations and interactions with her family and friends as they blend seamlessly into her own infernally buzzing internal monologue, Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home, where both everything and nothing happens.
With shades of Clarice Lispector, Elena Ferrante, and Kobo Abe, this verbally acrobatic novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and critic Mieko Kanai—whose work enjoys a cult status in Japan—is a disconcerting and radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage capitalist society.
Mild Vertigo is available for purchase at greedyreads.com!
Where is it happening?
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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