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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. are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders' The New York Times Book Review A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. The style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves. By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer by the end of "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you' Financial Times 'Delightful. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.Published in the US as The Lonesome Bodybuilder Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. 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 find a doorway to liberation. A newlywed notices that her spouse's features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own. A saleswoman 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 boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves-and the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentences-are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders." -Weike Wang, The New York Times Book ReviewĪ housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. "In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Author(s): Yukiko Motoya Asa Yoneda (Translator)