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. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearless young writers.
Yukiko Motoya Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Yukiko Motoya je uznávaná japonská autorka, ktorej písanie preniká do zložitosti ľudských vzťahov a súčasného života. Jej diela sa vyznačujú ostrou iróniou a nekonvenčným pohľadom na každodennú realitu. Motoya sa majstrovsky pohybuje medzi drámou a komédiou, často skúmajúc absurdity modernej existencie. Jej jedinečný štýl a prenikavé postrehy z nej robia nevyhnutnú autorku pre súčasnú japonskú literatúru.
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