The lonesome bodybuilder, stories by Yukiko Motoya ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda
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The lonesome bodybuilder, stories by Yukiko Motoya ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda
Language
eng
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Literary form
short stories
Main title
The lonesome bodybuilder
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1024242601
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stories by Yukiko Motoya ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda
Summary
I wish I could live inside a Yukiko Motoya book. Her perception and wisdom make the everyday experience feel magical and weird and the strangest experience seem strangely familiar. 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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adult
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