{"product_id":"love-at-least-isbn-9781593768317","title":"Love at Least:A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove at Least\u003c\/i\u003e is Sylvia Plath’s \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e brought into the fraught, twenty-first century world of Japanese contemporaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-five-year-old Yasuko has been living with her kind but apathetic boyfriend Tsunaki for three years. During this time, she has suffered waves of depression and hypersomnia, staying in bed for days on end, mired in ennui.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking over some of the house chores when Tsunaki begins working longer hours, hoping to break out of her rut, turns into a disaster. An attempt at cooking dinner ends with her sobbing in a pitch-black hallway, groping around for the tripped circuit breaker. Desperate to be “functional,” Yasuko lands a part-time job at a restaurant where, for the first time, she experiences a warm, family-like environment. But when the care from her coworkers eventually suffocates her, her manic-depression returns, and she storms out of the restaurant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfronting her brokenness, she questions what she has been afraid to face and asks Tsunaki: Why is he with her? Radical, comical, and energetic, \u003ci\u003eLove at Least \u003c\/i\u003eis a sincere and compelling story of young love. | \u003cb\u003eYUKIKO MOTOYA \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lonesome Bodybuilder. \u003c\/i\u003eShe won the Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for \u003ci\u003eAn Exotic Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e in 2016, the Noma Prize for New Writers for \u003ci\u003eWarm Poison\u003c\/i\u003e in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; and the Mishima Yukio Prize for \u003ci\u003eHow She Learned to Love Herself\u003c\/i\u003e in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKAMIL SPYCHALSKI\u003c\/b\u003e is a Japanese-English translator and the winner of the 7th JLPP International Translation Competition. His translations include Taiyo Fujii’s “Prayer,” which appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best of World SF Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e (Head of Zeus), and \u003ci\u003eSummer’s Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, a prize-winning novella by Kenji Maruyama. He lives in Fukuoka.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759477469413,"sku":"NP9781593768317","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593768317.jpg?v=1775598700","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/love-at-least-isbn-9781593768317","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}