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MONKEY New Writing from Japan
Volume 3: CROSSINGS
Series: MONKEY New Writing from Japan
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary Japanese literature, particularly those keen to explore works by leading Japanese women writers and the creative fusion of Japanese and Western literary styles.
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For readers who want to be introduced to exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women (Mieko Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and more).
MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 3 celebrates CROSSINGS: Transitioning Out of the Pandemic, and we are inspired by stories of transformation and the joyful play between Japanese and Western literatures.
MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, and Aoko Matsuda; a graphic narrative by Satoshi Kitamura; and contributions from Stuart Dybek and Matthew Sharpe.
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MONKEY New Writing from Japan
For fans of Japanese literature, such as Haruki Murakami, and readers keen to discover exciting new writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 5 celebrates CREATURES, from ants to bears, frogs to gazelles, and fish to birds. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Haruki...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan
For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 2 celebrates TRAVEL — we may not be able to travel much during this second year of the pandemic, but we can...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan
For fans of Japanese literature, such as Haruki Murakami and more, and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 4 celebrates MUSIC, as we welcome the post-pandemic flourishing of artistic expression. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan
For readers who want to be introduced to exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women (Mieko Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and more). MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 3 celebrates CROSSINGS: Transitioning Out of the Pandemic, and we are inspired by stories of transformation and the joyful play between Japanese...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan
For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. This first issue celebrates food and was published during the first year of the pandemic. It includes short fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami, Haruki...PaperbackSold Out
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Critics praise MONKEY for its lively, imaginative, and deeply moving writing. Roland Kelts of Nikkei Asia describes it as "more fun than anything called literature has a right to be," while Junot Diaz calls it "an astonishment, by turns playful and profound." Laird Hunt highlights its range as "deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work," and Eric Margolis notes it offers "varied, sumptuous flavours" of Japanese literature in translation.
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ISBN: 9781737625339
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 February 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
Illustration: color images throughout
Contributors:
- Edited by Ted Goossen
- Edited by Motoyuki Shibata
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Ted Goossen teaches Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. Heis the editor of The Oxford Book ofJapanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translationsof Hiromi Kawakami's People from MyNeighborhood (Granta Books and Soft Skull Press) and Naoya Shiga's Reconciliation (Canongate) werepublished in 2020.>
Motoyuki Shibata translates American literatureand runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY.He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson,Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers,among others. His translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018.Among his recent translations is Eric McCormack's Cloud.
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