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MONKEY New Writing from Japan Ted Goossen

MONKEY New Writing from Japan By Ted Goossen

MONKEY New Writing from Japan by Ted Goossen


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MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 2: TRAVEL by Ted Goossen

MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 2 celebrates TRAVEL -- we may not be able to travel much during this second year of the pandemic, but we can travel in our imaginations. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Kyohei Sakaguchi; new translations of modern classics; a graphic narrative by Satoshi Kitamura; and contributions from American writers such as Brian Evenson and Laird Hunt.

MONKEY New Writing from Japan Reviews

MONKEY is more fun than anything called literature has a right to be. Some of the most imaginative writing in the world just so happens to hail from Japan. --Roland Kelts, Nikkei Asia

An astonishment, by turns playful and profound, that makes you wish it were monthly. --Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

MONKEY is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work. --Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome

About Ted Goossen

TED GOOSSEN teaches Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakamis Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translations of Hiromi Kawakamis People from My Neighbourhood (Granta Books) and Naoya Shigas Reconciliation (Canongate) were published in 2020.

MOTOYUKI SHIBATA translates American literature and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY. He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers, among others. His translation of Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. Among his recent translations is Eric McCormacks Cloud.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Sea Horse, a story by Hiromi Kawakami

A woman hears an announcement on the radio that war has broken out, relatives arrive at her house seeking refuge, when the war ends they leave, then a civil war breaks out: a story by Tomoka Shibasaki

The Overcoat, a graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura

Hell, a story by Kikuko Tsumura

Seeing, a poem by Mieko Kawakami

The Decline of the Aliens + Sheep After Sheep, from City of Ears by Hideo Furukawa

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Travel: A Monkeys Dozen

The Dugong, a chapter from Takaokas Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa

Jogging in Southern Europe, an essay by Haruki Murakami

Whale Leg, a story by Laird Hunt

Kurozuka: A Noh Play, from the modern Japanese translation by Seiko Ito

The Trail, a story by Eric McCormack

Five Modern Poets on Travel, selected and translated by Andrew Campana

Ito Goes on a Road Trip, Making a Pilgrimage to Yuda Hot Springs, a chapter from The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito

Toad, a story by Barry Yourgrau

Every Reading, Every Sound, Every Sight, a travel essay by Junichi Konuma

My First Trip, essays by Mikako Brady, Hirokazu Koreeda, Miwa Nishikawa, Yui Tanizaki, and Utamaru

A Report on Travel, a story by Brian Evenson

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Along the Embankment, a story by Hiroko Oyamada

From the Northern Sea, a story by Yasunari Kawabata

The Lake, a story by Kyohei Sakaguchi

Cardboard Boxes and Their Uses, a story by Taki Monma

Flying Squirrels, an excerpt from a novella by Yuko Tsushima

The Most Boring Red on Earth, a story by Aoko Matsuda

I can't translate this! Remarks from twelve translators

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NPB9780997248081
9780997248081
0997248084
MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 2: TRAVEL by Ted Goossen
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Paperback
Stone Bridge Press
2022-02-28
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