A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami.
Jay Rubin is an American translator and academic. He is the
translator of several of Haruki Murakami's major works, including
Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Natsume Soseki's The
Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen
Other Stories. He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki
Murakami and the Music of Words and a novel, The Sun Gods.
Haruki Murakami is one of Japan's most admired and widely read
novelists. His most recent novel is Killing Commendatore.
Brilliant, startling, a goldmine ... unfolds like an idiosyncratic
mixtape, compiled with expert zeal by veteran translator Jay Rubin
... incredibly varied. Horror and mythology jostle with character
comedies, domestic dramas and Proustian reveries ... it challenges
notions of what translated literature should be
*Daily Telegraph*
A feast of literature, a smorgasbord of over 30 widely varied
modern Japanese writers ... Each lodges itself in memory ...
Penguin's new anthology is a literature lover's dream, page after
page of memorable writing, stories that leave a lasting impression
yet can be fully absorbed in one sitting
*Japan Times*
An exhilarating glimpse into Japanese literature
*Patti Smith*
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