<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A dual-language edition of Japanese stories--many appearing in English for the first time</b> <p/> This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. <p/> The stories--many of which appear here in English for the first time--are by well-known writers like Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto, as well as emerging voices like Abe Kazushige, Ishii Shinji, and Kawakami Hiromi. From the orthodox to the cutting-edge, they represent a range of styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of Japanese fiction over the past few decades in a collection that is equally rewarding for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of English or Japanese. <p/> Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michael Emmerich</b> (editor/translator/introducer) is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has translated from Japanese more than a dozen books of both fiction and nonfiction, including Kawakami Hiromi's <i>Manazuru</i>; Matsuura Rieko's <i>The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P;</i> Takahashi Gen'ichirō's <i>Sayonara, Gangsters</i>; Yoshimoto Banana's<i> Hardboiled & Hard Luck</i>, <i>There Is No Lid on the Sea</i>, <i>Moonlight Shadow</i>, <i>Goodbye Tsugumi</i>, and <i>Asleep</i>; and Kawabata Yasunari's <i>First Snow on Fuji</i>.
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