River of Dolls and Other Stories
$50.62
- Paperback
194 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2025
Summary
Stories about individuals caught between duty and desire, mostly set in Japan.
These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals caught between desire and duty, as well as the conflicting expectations of different cultures.
For example, in ‘Day Pass,’ a college student in South Carolina befriends a female prisoner on a work release program, thinking that she will be a good influence, but then realizes that she has g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815204964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9815204963 |
| Author: | SUZANNE KAMATA |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 194 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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About The Author
SUZANNE KAMATA
American Suzanne Kamata has lived in Japan for over thirty years. Her writing has appeared in The Best Asian Short Stories in 2017, 2022, and 2023 and The Best Asian Travel Writing 2020, The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, Telltale Food: Writings from the Fay Khoo Award 2017- 2019, and numerous other anthologies. She is the author of a previous short story collection, The Beautiful One Has Come (2011), which won a Nautilus Silver Award and a Next Generation Indie Best Award; the young adult novels Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible (2013), named an Honor Book by the Asian American Pacific Librarians Association, and Indigo Girl (2019) a Freeman Honor Book. Her most recent novel is The Baseball Widow (2021). She is an associate professor at Naruto University of Education.
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