{"product_id":"mild-vertigo-by-mieko-kanai-9781804270387","title":"Mild Vertigo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHousewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the conversations and interactions she has with her family and friends as they blend seamlessly into her internal monologue, \u003cem\u003eMild Vertigo\u003c\/em\u003e explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home, where both everything and nothing happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith shades of Clarice Lispector, Elena Ferrante, and Lucy Ellmann, this verbally acrobatic novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and critic Mieko Kanai—whose work enjoys a cult status in Japan—is a disconcerting and radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage capitalist society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46550007677164,"sku":"9781804270387","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10718173482830.jpg?v=1749945957","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mild-vertigo-by-mieko-kanai-9781804270387","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}