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040 _aPUL
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020 _a9781593766788
_q(pbk. ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _a1593766785
_q(pbk. ;
_qalk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)1024242601
041 1 _aeng
_hjpn
042 _apcc
092 _aMotoya,
_bYukiko
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aMotoya, Yukiko,
_d1979-
_eauthor.
_9381123
240 1 0 _aShort stories.
_kSelections.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe lonesome bodybuilder :
_bstories /
_cYukiko Motoya ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda.
250 _aFirst Soft Skull edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSoft Skull,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2018
300 _ax, 209 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Arashi no Pikunikku © 2012 by Yukiko Motoya and Irui kon'in tan © 2016 by Yukiko Motoya. First published in Japan in 2012, 2016 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo."
505 0 _aThe lonesome bodybuilder -- Fitting room -- Typhoon -- I called you by name -- An exotic marriage -- Paprika Jiro -- How to burden the girl -- The Women -- Q&A -- The dogs -- The straw husband.
520 _a"A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won't come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her spouse's features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own. In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and find a doorway to liberation. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers" -- Back cover.
600 1 0 _aMotoya, Yukiko,
_d1979-
_vTranslations into English.
_9381124
655 7 _aShort stories.
_2lcgft
_91945
700 1 _aYoneda, Asa,
_etranslator.
_9381125
994 _aC0
_bNFG
999 _c284878
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