With support from the Japan Foundation

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First published by Verso 2021

The stories here appeared in Japanese in The Covenant
images a larger collection of Izumi Suzuki’s short stories © Bunyusha 2014
Translation of ‘Women and Women’ and ‘Terminal Boredom’ © Daniel Joseph 2021
Translation of ‘You May Dream’ © David Boyd 2021
Translation of ‘Night Picnic’ © Sam Bett 2021
Translation of ‘That Old Seaside Club’ © Helen O’Horan 2021
Translation of ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ © Aiko Masubuchi 2021
Translation of ‘Forgotten’ © Polly Barton 2021
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The moral rights of the author have been asserted

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ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-988-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-989-4 (UK EBK)
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-990-0 (US EBK)

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Suzuki, Izumi, 1949–1986, author. |; Barton, Polly (Translator), translator. |; Bett, Sam, 1986–, translator. |; Boyd, David (David G.), translator. |; Joseph, Daniel (Translator), translator. |; Masubuchi, Aiko, translator. |; O’Horan, Helen, translator.

Title: Terminal boredom: stories / Izumi Suzuki, translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan.

Description: London; New York: Verso, 2021. |; Summary: ‘Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination’ – Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020047575 (print) |; LCCN 2020047576 (ebook) |; ISBN 9781788739887 (paperback) |; ISBN 9781788739900 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Suzuki, Izumi, 1949–1986 – Translations into English. |; LCGFT: Short stories.

Classification: LCC PL861.U9265 A2 2021 (print) |; LCC PL861.U9265 (ebook) |; DDC 895.63/5 – dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047575

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047576

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