Swallows

von Natsuo Kirino

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it's hard to turn down.Retired ballet star Motoi and his wife, Yuko, have spent years trying to conceive. As Motoi grows increasingly desperate for a child, their last resort is surrogacy; a business transaction, plain and simple. But as they try to exert ever more control over Riki, their contract with her starts to slip through their fingers . . .Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic vision of contemporary Japan, and of a young woman's fight to preserve her dignity - at any cost.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9781837263028
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2026
• Größe: 195 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd.
• Übersetzung: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda