Bedtime Eyes
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"Bedtime Eyes" is the debut novel of Amy Yamada, one of the most prominent and controversial novelists in Japan today. Published in 1985, it immediately brought Yamada into the spotlight because it, for many critics, embodied the spirit of the "shinjinru" - i.e. Generation X - in much the same way that "Less Than Zero", "Bright Lights", "Big City", and "Douglas Coupland" did in the U.S.
Translated by Yumi Gunji and Marc Jardine, and published by St Martin's Press in May 2006, the English-language version of Bedtime Eyes (ISBN 0-312-35226-3) is the first of three of Yamada's novellas/short novels to be published -- the other two are "The Piano Player's Fingers" and "Jesse." While all are centred around the relationship between a Japanese woman and a black American man, each explores love, sex, and the vast gulf between their different and equally revealing viewpoints. Starkly imagined and sharply observed, "Bedtime Eyes" introduces to the English language some of Yamada's best known and most influential work.
