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The thirteen stories in this collection focus on ordinary characters from daily life- the working husband and the loyal wife who sadly and silently endures. Inevitably, they unravel to reveal human obsessions, flaws, and fears. And like the very best Japanese fiction, they are filled with sharp details and subtle, revealing changes of hue and texture.
Author Biography: Known for her many teleplays and winner of the Naoki Prize for Fiction, Kuniko Mukoda was emerging as one of Japan's most popular writers when she died in a plane crash in 1981.; Translator Tomone Matsumoto is co-editor of the Showa Anthology of Japanese short stories.
Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human.
This collection includes: The Name of the Flower, Small Change, I Doubt It, The Otter, Manhattan, Beef Shoulder, The Doghouse, The Fake Egg, Triangular Chop, Mr. Carp, Ears, Half-Moon, and The Window.
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Alejandro Roque
reviewed Name of the Flower on December 30, 2019 Name of the Flower
A gorgeous collection of stories about post-WWII Japanese families. Most of these center on female protagonists and tell the stories of marriages, class, education, relationships with aging parents and in-laws, managing own and husband's careers, raising children. Each story holds numerous turns and surprises -- each one is unexpected. Many of the stories are sad or have sad endings, but the reading experience is captivating, because often these endings to leave openings for secondary characters; what's a bad ending for one, is an opportunity for another. One of my favorites is the penultimate story, "Half-Moon," in which the mother accidentally cuts off the tip of her son's finger, and then is overwhelmed by guilt and, unable to cope with her mother-in-law's nagging, leaves the house. The turns in the story are very well done, well prepared and yet totally unexpected.
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