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Book

The lonesome bodybuilder : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION MOTO (CEN)

Edition

First Soft Skull edition.

Publication Information

New York : Soft Skull, 2018.

Physical Description

x, 209 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

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 businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon--until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working 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 husband'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, through it, find a way to liberation.

Notes

"Arashi no Pikunikku © 2012 by Yukiko Motoya and Irui kon'in tan © 2016 by Yukiko Motoya. First published in Japan in 2015, 2016 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • Lonesome bodybuilder
  • Fitting room
  • Typhoon
  • I called you by name
  • Exotic marriage
  • Paprika Jiro
  • How to burden the girl
  • Women
  • Q&A
  • Dogs
  • Straw husband.

Subjects

Added Authors

Asa Yoneda