The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Penguin classics)

ISBN 10: 024131190X / ISBN 13: 9780241311905

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2020

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-CBL-9780241311905

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A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami

This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow with a human face and a woman who turns into sugar, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy.

Edited by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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.

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Titel: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (...
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: paperback
Zustand: New