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The Lonesome Bodybuilder

Yukiko Motoya

3.58/5 (4035 ratings)

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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 newlywed 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. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:

Edition:: Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1593766785

ISBN13:: 9781593766788

kindle Asin:: B079QHF3X8

The Lonesome Bodybuilder

Yukiko Motoya

3.58/5 (4035 ratings)

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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 newlywed 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. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:

Edition:: Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1593766785

ISBN13:: 9781593766788

kindle Asin:: B079QHF3X8

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