The bear and the paving stone / Toshiyuki Horie ; translated by Geraint Howells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horie, Toshiyuki, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Howells, Geraint, translator.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Japanese.

Psychological fiction, Japanese.

Genre:

Short stories.

Short stories, Japanese.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

123 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, [2018]

Summary:

"A Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend--talking about war, literature, and everything in between. As his ideas of his life become more entangled with his personal writing, the pangs of his past and his half-forgotten memories overlap and threaten his peace. Owing a debt to French writers from La Fontaine to Proust, the three fable-like tales in The Bear and the Paving Stone are stories of loss, memory and a longing to belong."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

The bear and the paving stone

The sandman is coming

In the old castle.

Notes:

"Winner of the Akutagawa prize."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781782274377

1782274375

OCLC:

1033566636