AUTOFICTION

Rin is twenty-two, with a troubled adolescence behind her. She is flyingback from her honeymoon, madly in love with her husband, Shin, and thefuture looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinksRin is sleeping and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce theflight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control the phrase 'madlyin love' takes on a more sinister meaning. Prizewinning author HitomiKanehara's sensational new novel, "Autofiction", follows Rin's lifebackwards through time from this moment so that we see her when she iseighteen, sixteen and finally fifteen, and a picture of the dark heart andviolent past of this disturbed young woman gradually develops.