The Mud of a Century

Yūka Ishii 's debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.

Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman

contracted to an IT company as a language instructor finds herself caught up in a deluge of flashbacks and memories, reflecting on unspoken words and unlived lives and contemplating the muddy chaos of her own karma.

Told in a magic realist stream-of-consciousness style evocative of the subtle, wry sense of humour found in the traditional Japanese narrative art of 'rakugo', The Mud of a Century explores the interrelated bonds between self and other, Japan and India, past and present, fact and fantasy, and material and spirit.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Gazebo Books
Published: 09/01/2023
ISBN: 9780648901198
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.12w x 0.29d