A stunning tapestry of everyday life
Still Life and Other Stories
β Scribed by Junzo Shono
- Publisher
- Stone Bridge Press
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Winner of the Pen Center West Award, this delicate collection of thirteen linked tales reveals the flow of daily life in the modern Japanese family. Junzo Shono's artful layering of commonplace events, images, and conversations has been compared to haiku poetry crossed with an Ozu film. Starred review in Publishers Weekly.
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