The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

✍ Scribed by Motoya, Yukiko

• Book ID: 110487325
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781593766788

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize
**"This may well give Your Duck Is My Duck a run for its money as best title of the century. People around the world have been whispering Motoya's name in my ear. Now she's translated into English!" --Gary Shteyngart, Vulture , Most Anticipated Fall Books

"An often surreal, at times disturbing, and reliably twisted look at the hidden sides of our everyday lives. By peeking behind the closed doors of our mundane existences, Motoya offers up truly unsettling looks at the things people are capable of doing. It is a particular, strange pleasure to read these stories for the first time; everyone should relish getting that opportunity." --NYLON , 1 of 21 Books You'll Want to Read This Fall**
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their...