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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
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A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers – Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata – but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima’s ‘Flames’ to Banana Yoshimoto’s ‘Bee Honey’. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow with a human face and a woman who turns into sugar, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Edited by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami
Additional information
| Weight | 0.395 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 576 |
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| Year Published | 2019-4-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 024131190X |
| About The Author | Jay Rubin is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami's major works, including Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Natsume Soseki's The Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and a novel, The Sun Gods.Haruki Murakami is one of Japan's most admired and widely read novelists. His most recent novel is Killing Commendatore. |
Brilliant, startling, a goldmine … unfolds like an idiosyncratic mixtape, compiled with expert zeal by veteran translator Jay Rubin … incredibly varied. Horror and mythology jostle with character comedies, domestic dramas and Proustian reveries … it challenges notions of what translated literature should be |
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| Other text | A feast of literature, a smorgasbord of over 30 widely varied modern Japanese writers … Each lodges itself in memory … Penguin's new anthology is a literature lover's dream, page after page of memorable writing, stories that leave a lasting impression yet can be fully absorbed in one sitting |
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