The first English translation of these subtle stories of self-worth and domestic frustration is a revelation
. If her stories are pensive to the point of dreaminess, they’re also full of frustration, a discontent that simmers like a hot pan. I’m so glad Drawn & Quarterly has seen fit to put them into an English edition for the first time.
Translated by the comics historian Ryan Holmberg , these stories comprise an extended portrait of a housewife, Chiharu Yamakawa. She has two daughters and a husband who treats her like a servant. Often lonely, there are days when she hardly recognises herself; she seems little more than an outline of a person, a sensation Murasaki captures on the page via a delicate all-body halo and, sometimes, by drawing her without features on her face.
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