This collection of Japanese short stories reveals a rapidly changing Japanese society and the deep draw of its traditional culture.The first half of this century saw the coming of age of the Japanese short story. Influenced by Western literary techni...
"Lane Dunlop's translations read elegantly, and his selection of modern Japanese Stories is both fresh and persuasive." -- Donald Keene, Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.The fourteen distinct voices ...