Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction - Hardcover

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9784770015433: Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction

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ISBN 10: 4770015437 ISBN 13: 9784770015433

Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd, 1991

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"Monkey Brain Sushi" features 11 stories which introduce the brightest and boldest voices in Japanese fiction.

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Review:

"... they also have wit and something to say about their society." -- New York Times Book Review

"A lively mixture of gritty realism and comic or ironic fantasy." -- Atlantic

"Cyberpunk, sci-fi, feminist, and erotic tales ... a lively, electric picture of contemporary Japanese society." -- Booklist

"One of the most wholly creative collections I've read in quite a while." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"What distinguishes these stories are their narrators' voices: conversational, knowing, and liberally dosed with drop-dead wit." -- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Alfred Birnbaum, an American born in 1957, lives in Myanmar when he is not traveling elsewhere. He has spent many years in Japan since childhood, and has been actively involved in the visual and performing arts there. He is also one of the leading translators of contemporary Japanese fiction, with three major novels by Haruki Murakami and the award-winning A Burden of Flowers by Natsuki Ikezawa, among his translations.

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