The Paper Door and Other Stories - Paperback
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The Paper Door and Other Stories
No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some of Shiga's stories "among the most brilliant achievements in this genre by any twentieth-century Japanese writer." Shiga's unique style is...
Shiga Naoya was born in 1883. Throughout his long life (he died in 1971) and after, he has remained for Japanese people one of the most revered of all modern writers. His most widely known novel is A Dark Night's Passing.
Lane Dunlop is winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Award for Literary Translation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Literature. He is cotranslator of...Edition
Revised Edition
Contributor(s)
Naoya Shiga, Lane Dunlop (Translator), Donald Keene (Foreword by)
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