Description A major new collection of Japanese Short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese Short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today.
Born in Kyoto in 1949, Murakami now lives near Tokyo..
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Among his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include the Nobel Prize winners J.
His more than twenty books include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, and Killing Commendatore.
Haruki Murakami (introducer) is one of Japan\'s most admired and widely read novelists, whose work has been translated into more than fifty languages.
He has taught at Harvard and lives in Seattle.
He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, and a novel, The Sun Gods.
About the Author Jay Rubin (editor) is a translator and scholar who has translated several of Haruki Murakami\'s major works, including Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, as well as Natsume Soseki\'s The Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa\'s Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories.
From Yuko Tsushima\'s "Flames" to Yuten Sawanishi\'s "Filling Up with Sugar" to Shin\'ichi Hoshi\'s "Shoulder-Top Secretary" to Banana Yoshimoto\'s "Bee Honey," The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty, and comedy.
Stories by writers already well known to English-language readers are included--like Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata, and Yoshimoto--as well as many surprising new finds.
Edited by acclaimed translator Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated some of the stories, and with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, this Book is a revelation.
Description A major new collection of Japanese Short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese Short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today
