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Milky Way railroad / Kenji Miyazawa ; translated and adapted from the Japanese by Joseph Sigrist and D.M. Stroud ; illustrated by Ryu Okazaki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miyazawa, Kenji, 1896-1933.
- Series:
- Stone Bridge Fiction
- Standardized Title:
- Ginga tetsudō no yoru. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Future life--Fiction.
- Future life.
- Japanese fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st Stone Bridge Fiction ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Stone Bridge Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A tender, timeless fable about afterlife from Japan's best-loved children's writer.
- Contents:
- Contents; Untitled; Introduction by D. M. Stroud; Afternoon Class; The Print Shop; Home; The Milky Way Festival; The Pillar of Heaven; Milky Way Station; Northern Crossand Pliocene Seashore; The Bird Catcher; Giovanni's Ticket; Shipwrecked Children; The Mysterious Forest; From the New World; The Scorpion's Fire; The Southern Cross; The Professor; The Bridge
- Notes:
- Original Japanese text begun in 1927, published posthumously as Ginga tetsudo no yoru.
- ISBN:
- 1-61172-503-8
- OCLC:
- 727647928
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