Picnic in the storm : stories
Motoya, Yukiko, 1979-2019
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A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won't come out of the fitting room - and who may or may not be human. A newly wed notices that her husband's features are beginning to slide around his face - to match her own. In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and, through it, find a way to liberation.
Main title:
Picnic in the storm : stories / Yukiko Motoya ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda.
Author:
Motoya, Yukiko, 1979-, authorYoneda, Asa, translator
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2019.
Collation:
209 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: as The lonesome bodybuilder. New York: Soft Skull, 2018.
Awards:
Kenzaburō Ōe Prize
ISBN:
9781472154354 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
1940825
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woburn Sands Library | Adult fiction | Short stories | Available |