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  • Still Life and Other Stories

    by Junzo Shono ...
    Translated by Wayne P. Lammers ...
    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
    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 family card game. A businessman stays overnight at an inn and drinks with the innkeeper. A family parakeet seems to be dead but then climbs back on its perch ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Evening Clouds

    A Novel

    by Junzo Shono ...
    Translated by Wayne P. Lammers ...
    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
    A masterpiece of quiet lyricism set against a backdrop of change and renewal in suburban Tokyo.The most celebrated work by one of Japan's master literary stylists, Evening Clouds is a book filled with delicate images of ordinary life, richly and precisely observed. A family moves into a new home on a windswept hilltop in western Tokyo. Around them are forests and farms. But the developers are ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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