Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887277926 ISBN 13: 9780887277924

Publisher: Cheng & Tsui, 2011

Synopsis

This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing from the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today's Japan. Along with some of the world's most renowned Japanese authors, Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs includes many writers making their English-language debut.

About this title

About the Author:

Helen Mitsios is the editor of New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan, which was twice listed as a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. She has recently co-authored the memoir Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust.

Review:

Great stories rewire your brain, and in these tales you can feel your mind shifting as often as Mizue changes trains at the Shinagawa station in My Slightly Crooked Brooch... The contemporary short stories in this collection, at times subversive, astonishing and heart-rending, are brimming with originality and genius. --David Dalton, author of Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol

Here are stories that arrive from our global future, made from shards of many local, personal pasts. In the age of anime, amazingly, Japanese literature thrives. --Paul Anderer, Professor of Japanese, Columbia University

Here are stories that arrive from our global future, made from shards of many local, personal pasts. In the age of anime, amazingly, Japanese literature thrives. --Paul Anderer, Professor of Japanese, Columbia University

Here are stories that arrive from our global future, made from shards of many local, personal pasts. In the age of anime, amazingly, Japanese literature thrives. --Paul Anderer, Professor of Japanese, Columbia University

About this edition

• Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0887277926
• ISBN 13: 9780887277924
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Helen Mitsios