The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P - Hardcover

Matsuura, Rieko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 4770031165 ISBN 13: 9784770031167

Verlag: Kodansha International Ltd, 2009

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Book by Matsuura Rieko

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"With pleasure as her scalpel, Rieko Matsuura opens up a world all her own, that no one else can ever hope to imitate. She has one enduring theme. And that theme is love." --Natsuo Kirino, author of Out"Matsuura's cult classic is finally available to readers of English, and we've been missing a treasure. This adventure fable explores sex, gender and the erotic with seditious lucidity and a soaring imagination that examines the whole absurd concoction from unexpected angles. It is enchanting, hilarious, and genuinely poignant." --Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love"Matsuura's imagination is limitless." --The World"Delving boldly into the kind of magical realism employed regularly by her compatriot Haruki Murakami, Matsuura has a more grounded, Kafka-esque interest in the practical (rather than supernatural or spiritual) implications..." --Publishers WeeklyOnline

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This title presents a modern-day fairy tale about a young woman whose big toe turns into a penis. "The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P" is a highly acclaimed novel that won Japan's most prestigious literary prize for women writers. It is a kind of coming-of-age story - a modern-day fairy tale - about a young Japanese woman who wakes up one afternoon to discover that her big toe has turned into a penis. In coming to terms with her new sexual organ, the heroine is forced to reconsider her body, her sexuality, and her life. After fleeing from her homophobic fiance, she falls in love with a bisexual blind pianist who accepts her for who she is, and together they join a troupe of performers - all sexually deformed and emotionally twisted men and women. Thus begins her 'apprenticeship'. There are few novels that are equally praised by literary critics and scholars alike, and fewer yet that actually go on to become bestsellers, but the "The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P" is both. It is a highly imaginative, intelligent work, first-rate as literature, as entertainment, and as a love story. This novel is an exciting addition to the corpus of literary women's fiction. This is the first English language translation of a highly acclaimed novel, winner of the Women's Literature Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary prize for women writers.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Kodansha International Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 4770031165
• ISBN 13: 9784770031167
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432