A newlywed notices that her spouse’s features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. In the English-language debut of one of Japans most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees. The Lonesome Bodybuilder Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops.

Summary: Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan 'are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders' (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). EPUB & PDF Ebook The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories EBOOK ONLINE. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.

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