Still Life and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Shono, Junzo

• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Japan, Japan.
• ISBN: 0893469904

✦ Synopsis

This first translation into English of a penetrating collection of stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers focuses on the small events and revelations of domestic life. In one story, a straying young husband and his unhappy wife attempt to construct their lives around the growing void between them. Another tells of a bureaucrat fired from his job for embezzlement who still leaves the house every day so his children won't know about his predicament. The other 11 pieces form a sort of novella dealing exclusively with the Yomogida family. Shono is particularly adept at capturing clos.;Introduction; PART ONE; marriage; A Dance; Evenings at the Pool; PART TWO; family album; Still Life; Crabs; Birds; Woodshed; Azure Sky; Two Men and the Autumn Wind; The Workshop; Picture Cards; PART THREE; still together; The Rooster; The Mouse; On the Roof.

✦ Subjects

Japan