Where the Wild Ladies Are - Paperback
by Aoko Matsuda
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (Translator)Publish date:2020-10-20Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593766900ISBN-10:1593766904UPC:9781593766900Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, WomenSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCABD4602N
Where the Wild Ladies Are
In this "delightfully uncanny" collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services--from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593766900ISBN-10:1593766904UPC:9781593766900Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, WomenSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCABD4602N
Aoko Matsuda is a writer and translator. In 2013, her debut book, Stackable, was nominated for the Yukio Mishima Prize and the Noma Literary New Face Prize. Her novella The Girl Who Is Getting Married was published by Strangers Press in the UK in 2016. In 2019, her short story "The Woman Dies" was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. She has translated work by Karen Russell, Amelia Gray, and...
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