The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yukiko Motoya, Asa Yoneda (Translator)Publish date:2018-11-06Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593766788ISBN-10:1593766785UPC:9781593766788Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Absurdist, LiterarySize:8.25 x 5.62 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCCDEQVCP2
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). In the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593766788ISBN-10:1593766785UPC:9781593766788Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Absurdist, LiterarySize:8.25 x 5.62 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCCDEQVCP2
Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Her first story, "Eriko to zettai," appeared in the literary magazine Gunzo in 2002. Motoya won the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; the...
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