Новинки Юкико Мотоя

В повести и рассказах Юкико Мотои сливаются воедино магический реализм, абсурд, древние мифы и синтоистские легенды. В результате современная японская действительность предстаёт перед читателем своей самой сказочной, а главное — иносказательной стороной. Здесь мужчины и женщины — не равноправные, но разновидовые существа. И там, где они, кажется, все-таки сливаются воедино, — поверьте, так только кажется.

Самая необычная книга одного из самых необычных авторов современной Японии в 2015 году получила высшую литературную награду Страны восходящего солнца — премию Акутагавы.

A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working 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. A newlywed notices that her husband's features are beginning to slide around his face - to match her own.
In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and, through it, find a way to liberation. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debu

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In Yukiko Motoya’s delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves―and the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentences―are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders." ―Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A…

A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique―which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon―until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working 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. A newlywed notices that her husband’s features are beginning to slide around his face―to match her own.

In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien―and, through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers.

「ある日、自分の顔が旦那の顔とそっくりになっていることに気が付いた。」――結婚4年の専業主婦を主人公に、他人同士が一つになる「夫婦」という形式の魔力と違和を、軽妙なユーモアと毒を込めて描く表題作ほか、「藁の夫」など短編3篇を収録。大江健三郎賞、三島由紀夫賞受賞作家の2年半ぶり、待望の最新作!

あの夜、同級生と思しき見知らぬ男の電話を受けた時から、私の戦いは始まった。魅力の塊のような彼は、説得力漲る嘘をつき、愉しげに人の感情を弄ぶ。自意識をずたずたにされながらも、私はやがて彼と関係を持つ。恋愛に夢中なただの女だと誤解させ続けるために。最後の最後に、私が彼を欺くその日まで――。一人の女の子の、十九歳から五年にわたる奇妙な闘争の物語。渾身の異色作。