Rabbits, Crabs, Etc. by Phyllis Birnbaum (.ePUB)
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Rabbits, Crabs, Etc: Stories by Japanese Women by Phyllis Birnbaum (editor & translator)
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Overview: A collection of six stories by Japanese women edited and translated by Phyllis Birnbaum, taken from a cross-section of eras. Each story is compelling—spare in style but rich in emotion. Taken as a whole, these stories give considerable insight into the Japanese psyche, both male and female.
Birnbaum’s selection features Kanai Mieko’s now-classic “Rabbits”—a surreal, intensely disturbing tale from 1972. Equally striking is Kono Taeko’s “Crabs” which won the 1963 Akutagawa Prize. Sono Ayako’s “Fuji” is a conversational, subtle glimpse of issues around class divides, domesticity and gender rules, issues that also surface in Enchi Fumiko’s “A Bond for Two Lifetimes: Gleanings.” Poet and Buddhist scholar Okamoto Kanoko’s “A Mother’s Love” is an evocative story centred on a woman recently returned to Tokyo from Paris, where her son has remained to study art. In Uno Chiyo’s “Happiness,” an older women looking back at her life, particularly during wartime, and her attempts to order her existence.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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