Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 3: Crossings - Paperback

Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 3: Crossings - Paperback

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Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 3: Crossings - Paperback

Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 3: Crossings - Paperback

$22.40
Sale price  $22.40 Regular price 

by Ted Goossen (Editor), Motoyuki Shibata (Editor)

For
readers who want to be introduced to exciting contemporary Japanese writers,
especially women (Mieko Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and more)
.


MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an
annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume
3 celebrates CROSSINGS: Transitioning Out of the Pandemic, we are inspired by
stories of transformation and the joyful play between Japanese and Western
literatures. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko
Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, and Aoko Matsuda; a graphic
narrative by Satoshi Kitamura; and contributions from Stuart Dybek and Matthew
Sharpe.

Author Biography

Ted Goossen teaches Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. He
is the editor of The Oxford Book of
Japanese Short Stories
. He translated Haruki Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translations
of Hiromi Kawakami's People from My
Neighborhood
(Granta Books and Soft Skull Press) and Naoya Shiga's Reconciliation (Canongate) were
published in 2020.>


Motoyuki Shibata translates American literature
and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY.
He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson,
Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers,
among others. His translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018.
Among his recent translations is Eric McCormack's Cloud.

Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.6 x 10.1 x 7.4 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: January 10, 2023

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