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Where the Wild Ladies Are

Where the Wild Ladies Are

Matsuda Aoko, Polly Barton (translation)
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Winner of an English PEN Award

Named a 'new book you need to read in 2020' by i-D

Named a 'best book of the year so far' by Tatler

Witty, inventive, & profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japan's most exciting writers.

In a company run by the mysterious Mr Tei, strange things are afoot – incense sticks lead to a surprise encounter; a young man reflects on his mother's death; a foxlike woman finally finds her true calling. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation & recent changes in Japanese women's lives.

Aoko Matsuda is a writer & translator. In 2013, her debut book, Stackable, was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize & the Noma Literary New Face Prize. In 2019, her short story ‘The Woman Dies’ (from the collection The Year of No Wild Flowers), published on Granta online, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her novella The Girl Who Is Getting Married was published by Strangers Press in 2016. She has translated work by Karen RussellAmelia Gray & Carmen Maria Machado into Japanese.

Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature & non-fiction, currently based in Bristol. She has translated short stories for Words Without Borders, The White Review & GRANTA. Her full-length translations include Friendship for Grown-ups by Naocola YamazakiMikumari by Misumi Kubo (both Strangers Press) & Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press). After being awarded the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, she is currently working on a non-fiction book entitled Fifty Sounds.

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Year:
2020
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Language:
english
Pages:
194
ISBN 10:
1911284371
ISBN 13:
9781911284376
File:
EPUB, 2.24 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2020
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