Jayne Joso

Japan Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Fun, thought-provoking, engaging, beautifully written, and equally beautifully illustrated; a book to be treasured and savoured and returned to time and time again." Trevor Skingle

"The collection of fictional vignettes offers a brilliant understanding of both Japan and the lives that populate it. Japan Stories far exceeds its purpose of translating Japanese culture, and details the breadth of the human condition in a charming, universal and accessible way" - Alex Payne

"With exquisite and transformative simplicity, Joso assembles a polychromatic collage whose collective power adds up to very much more that its individual parts." - Steve Whitaker

Jayne Joso's new book is a collection of stories and short fiction set in Japan. Each concerns a particular character - a sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia-struck father, a widow in the far north reflecting on her provincial life,- and tells a compelling story about about them. Together these short narratives become a mosaic of a life in contemporary Japan, its people, its life, its thinking, its character. With the focus of the world on the Tokyo Olympics, Japan Stories provides a window into a country of which we know less than we think. These strikingly crafted and human stories are illustrated with ten images by leading manga artist Namiko.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seren
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781725900
• Artikelnr.: 62880842

Autorenporträt

Jayne Joso, is the author of five novels, including My Falling Down House (2016 - also set in Japan) and From Seven to the Sea) (2019). She lives in London after spending a number of years in Japan, where her fascination with that country began. She is the recipient of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Award, given to artists whose work interprets Japan to other cultures.