Strange light afar
Subtitle: tales of the supernatural from old Japan
By: written by Rui Umezawa ; illustrated by Mikiko Fujita
Contributors: Fujita, Mikio, 1953- illustrator
Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781554987238
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION; Tales; Paranormal; Asia; Fiction; Contes; Folklore; Country & Ethnic; Fairy Tales & Folklore; People & Places; Horror
Description: A bitterly jealous brother, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter -- the motives underlying these traditional Japanese folktale characters are explored with haunting results.
Notes: Issued also in electronic formats.
Table of contents: title: Snow; title: Trickster; title: Honor; title: Envy; title: Captive; title: Vanity; title: Paradise; title: Betrayal.