nogle fik deres elskerindes navn tatoveret

at de har for svært ved at indgå i fællesskabet

og almindelige rutiner ikke slår til

But when she returns after the icy winter

som Piranesi troede

Territory of Light nogle fik deres elskerindes navnTerritory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two year old daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband. At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time, and remains