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Can I read The Bear and the Paving Stone (Japanese Novellas Book 5) on EtoBox?
The Bear and the Paving Stone (Japanese Novellas Book 5) by Toshiyuki Horie; Geraint Howells is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Bear and the Paving Stone (Japanese Novellas Book 5) about?
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing A Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend - talking about war, literature, and everything in between. As his ideas of his life become more entangled with his personal writing, the pangs of his past and his half-forgotten memories overlap and threaten his peace. Owing a debt to French writers from La Fontaine to Proust, the three fable-like tales in The Bear and the Paving Stone are stories of loss, memory and a longing to belong.
Who reads The Bear and the Paving Stone (Japanese Novellas Book 5)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Toshiyuki Horie; Geraint Howells
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782274377
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction