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The lonesome bodybuilder : stories / Yukiko Motoya ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda.

by Motoya, Yukiko, 1979-

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Soft Skull, 2018.

9781593766788 (trade pbk.)

1st Soft Skull ed.

x, 209 p. ; 21 cm.

"Arashi no Pikunikku c2015 by Yukiko Motoya and Irui kon'in tan c2016 by Yukiko Motoya. First published in Japan in 2015, 2016 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo."

Text in English, translated from the Japanese.

The lonesome bodybuilder -- Fitting room -- Typhoon -- I called you by name -- An exotic marriage -- Paprika Jiro -- How to burden the girl -- The Women -- Q&A -- The dogs -- Straw husband.

"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 commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A saleswoman 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 spouse'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 find a doorway to liberation. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers" -- Back cover.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

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