This heart-breaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too apropos today
continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so often finds stifling
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures
' Financial Times
translated by Michael Hofmann
Transit Hiromi Kawakami This heart-breaking novella is aIn the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions personal, moral, artistic, and practical as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to