The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

by Yukiko Motoya

Book Overview

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).

In the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593766785
• ISBN13: 9781593766788
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"