The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo In these three haunting & lyrical stories three young women experience unsettling loss & romance In a dreamlike adventure one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend mist-monsters & villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; & an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing Sensual yearning & filled with the tricks of memory & grief Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales