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The Lonesome Bodybuilder - Stories (Paperback)
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder - Stories (Paperback)
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List price R418
Loot Price R350
Discovery Miles 3 500
You Save R68 (16%)
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Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize A New York
Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In Yukiko Motoya's delightful
new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . .
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
Review 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 commuters struggling to keep their
umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they
hold the secret to flying. 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 newlywed notices that her
spouse'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 find a
doorway to liberation. The English-language debut of one of Japan's
most fearlessly inventive young writers.
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