The failed double suicide in the Acame waterfalls: Tyokitsa Kurumatani

To write this book, the author spent eight years among people living beyond poverty. People, among whom are not the categories of modern society. Among the lumpen, who have neither at home, no faith, nor the past, nor the future. Who live, love and die like animals – violently and simple.
She is full of pain, full of desperate power. It’s hard to read it, and still read in one breath. And, after reading, you know that you are no longer the same as you were, before, when you opened it for the first time. And what again you take her from the shelf – to look into the face of this darkness with her questions, which, perhaps, is simply not.

Author
Kurumatani Tyokits
Translator
Okamoto Yura
Publisher
Hyperion, 2014
Series
Terra Nipponica