β Scribed by Kuniko Mukoda
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The thirteen stories in this collection focus on ordinary characters from daily life- the working husband and the loyal wife who sadly and silently endures. Inevitably, they unravel to reveal human obsessions, flaws, and fears. And like the very best Japanese fiction, they are filled with sharp details and subtle, revealing changes of hue and texture.
Author Biography: Known for her many teleplays and winner of the Naoki Prize for Fiction, Kuniko Mukoda was emerging as one of Japan's most popular writers when she died in a plane crash in 1981.; Translator Tomone Matsumoto is co-editor of the Showa Anthology of Japanese short stories.
Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human.
This collection includes: The Name of the Flower, Small Change, I Doubt It, The Otter, Manhattan, Beef Shoulder, The Doghouse, The Fake Egg, Triangular Chop, Mr. Carp, Ears, Half-Moon, and The Window.
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