Picnic in the storm
Motoya, Yukiko, 1979-2019
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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 newly wed 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.
Main title:
Picnic in the storm / Yukiko Motoya ; translated by Asa Yoneda.
Author:
Motoya, Yukiko, 1979-, authorYoneda, Asa, translator
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2019.
Collation:
224 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781472154347 (hbk)
Dewey class:
895.636
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
2759376