MONKEY New Writing from Japan
Volume 2: TRAVEL
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-9972480-8-1 (ISBN)
Description
For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women writers.
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 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.
Reviews / Votes
"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
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley CA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
color illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 258 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9972480-8-1 (9780997248081)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ted Goosen 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 Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translations of Hiromi Kawakami's People from My Neighbourhood (Granta Books) and Naoya Shiga's 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 Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. Among his recent translations is Eric McCormack's Cloud.
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 Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. Among his recent translations is Eric McCormack's Cloud.
Content
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 Monkey's Dozen
The Dugong, a chapter from Takaoka's 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 Jun'ichi 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
Contributors
Credits
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 Monkey's Dozen
The Dugong, a chapter from Takaoka's 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 Jun'ichi 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
Contributors
Credits