The Bear and the Paving Stone

By Toshiyuki Horie

Book Overview

Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782274375
• ISBN13: 9781782274377
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"