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"This may well give Your Duck Is My Duck a run for its money as best title of the century. People around the world have been whispering Motoya's name in my ear. Now she's translated into English!" —Gary Shteyngart, Vulture, Most Anticipated Fall Books "An often surreal, at times disturbing, &reliably twisted look at the hidden sides of our everyday lives. By peeking behind the closed doors of our mundane existences, Motoya offers up truly unsettling looks at the things people are capable of doing. It is a particular, strange pleasure to read these stories for the first time; everyone should relish getting that opportunity." —NYLON, 1 of 21 Books You'll Want to Read This Fall Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, & homes of contemporary Japan “are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams & Rivka Galchen & George Saunders” (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice). In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding & sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband

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Author

Yukiko Motoya, Asa Yoneda (translation)

Publisher

Soft Skull Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Humanities

Rating

3.9 / 5 (371 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14