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Titel: The Lonesome Bodybuilder
Auteur: Yukiko Motoya
ISBN: 9781593766788
Conditie: Echt gebruikt

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"In Yukiko Motoyas delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselvesand the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentencesare reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders." Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review

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 wont come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her spouses 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 alienand find a doorway to liberation. The English-language debut of one of Japans most fearlessly inventive young writers.

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