with an introductory essay by the writer and poet Malcolm Cowley
an island of sorcerers
sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt
nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online
One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, Yukiko Motoya mysteries & thrillers with an introductory essay byWinner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). In the English language debut of one of Japans most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and