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MONKEY New Writing from Japan

Volume 3: CROSSINGS
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MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology presenting the finest contemporary Japanese literature, with a focus on transformative stories and vibrant interplay between Japanese and Western literary traditions. This volume features short fiction, poetry, and graphic narratives by acclaimed writers including Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and contributions from Stuart Dybek and Matthew Sharpe.
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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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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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INFORMATION

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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