The Best Japanese Short Stories

✍ Scribed by Lane Dunlop

• Book ID: 111326507
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9784805317297

✦ Synopsis

An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!
Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention--Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi.
Highlights of this anthology include:

• Kafu Nagai's bittersweet portrait of a privileged family's expiring existence in "The Fox"
• Ango Sakaguchi's heartening celebration of postwar chaos in "One Woman and the War"
• Fumiko Hayashi's unabashed exploration of female sexuality in "Borneo Diamond"
• Junichi Watanabe's chilling assessment of alienation and social dislocation in "Invitation to Suicide"
• Gishu Nakayama's look at an out-of-place...