Description: Further DetailsTitle: Terminal BoredomCondition: NewEAN: 9781788739887ISBN: 9781788739887Publisher: Verso BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/20/2021Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 198gAuthor: Izumi SuzukiLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: StoriesISBN-10: 1788739884Description: On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. A bickering couple emigrate to a world that has worked out an innovative way to side-step the need for war, only to bring their quarrels (and something far more destructive) with them.And in the title story, Suzuki offers readers a tragic and warped mirroring of her own final days as the tyranny of enforced screen-time and the mechanistion of labour bring about a shattering psychic collapse. At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBTranslator: Aiko Masubuchi, Sam Bett, Daniel Joseph, Polly Barton, Helen O'Horan, David BoydContributor: Aiko Masubuchi (Translated by), Sam Bett (Translated by), Daniel Joseph (Translated by), Polly Barton (Translated by), Helen O'Horan (Translated by), David Boyd (Translated by)Genre: FictionTopic: Science FictionBook Series: Verso FictionRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Terminal Boredom
Title: Terminal Boredom
EAN: 9781788739887
ISBN: 9781788739887
Release Date: 04/20/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: Stories
ISBN-10: 1788739884
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Translator: David Boyd
Contributor: David Boyd (Translated by)
Series: Verso Fiction
Book Title: Terminal Boredom : Stories
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Dystopian, Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Absurdist
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6.6 Oz
Author: Izumi Suzuki
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
