| Author | : Yukiko Motoya |
| File Size | : 46,6 Mb |
| Publisher | : Corsair |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 04 July 2019 |
| ISBN | : 1472154355 |
| Pages | : 224 pages |
Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya Book PDF Summary
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 businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won't come out of the fitting room - and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her husband's 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 alien - and, through it, find a way to liberation. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearless young writers.