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Autumn Wind and Other Stories
Kafu Nagai
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Description for Autumn Wind and Other Stories
Paperback. Westerners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters translator Lane Dunlop introduces in this anthology. Lovers of fiction and students of Japan are certain to find these stories absorbing, engaging and instructive. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 309.
Spanning 60 years of 20th century Japanese literature, this anthology covers Japan's growth from a more traditional country into a distinctly modern one. Most of these stories had not been previously translated into English, opening up a vast new literary canon to Western readers. Award-winning translation Lane Dunlop introduces a cast of characters that stray beyond stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen.
The 14 stories include:
The Fox by Nagai Kafu
Flash Storm by Satomi Ton
One Woman and the War by Sakaguchi Ango
Borneo Diamond by Hayashi Fumiko
Invitation to Suicide by Watanabe Jun'ichi
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Spanning 60 years of 20th century Japanese literature, this anthology covers Japan's growth from a more traditional country into a distinctly modern one. Most of these stories had not been previously translated into English, opening up a vast new literary canon to Western readers. Award-winning translation Lane Dunlop introduces a cast of characters that stray beyond stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen.
The 14 stories include:
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Tuttle Shokai Inc Japan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
ISBN
9784805308509
SKU
V9784805308509
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Ref
99-15
About Kafu Nagai
Lane Dunlop has won several awards for translation, including the Japan--US Friendship Award for Literary Translation for both 'A Late Chrysanthemum' and 'Twenty-four Stories' from the Japanese, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Literature. He is co-translator of Yasunari's Kawabata 'Palm-of-the-Hand Stories' and the translator of numerous Japanese novels, including Kafu Nagai's 'During the Rains ... Read more
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