A Novel
Winner of the PEN Center USA Award for translationAward-winning author Junzo Shono weaves a stunning tapestry of everyday life in this collection of short stories.A young man, having failed his college entrance exams, becomes obsessed with a famil...
Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumy?z?shi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to "several works" by Teika and then names ...