The bear and the paving stone
By: Toshiyuki Horie ; translated by Geraint Howells
Contributors: Howells, Geraint, translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781782274377
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Japanese Short stories; Japanese Psychological fiction
Work titles: Kuma no shikiishi
Description: "A Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend--talking about war, literature, and everything in between. As his ideas of his life become more entangled with his personal writing, the pangs of his past and his half-forgotten memories overlap and threaten his peace. Owing a debt to French writers from La Fontaine to Proust, the three fable-like tales in The Bear and the Paving Stone are stories of loss, memory and a longing to belong."--Amazon.com.
Notes: "Winner of the Akutagawa prize."
Table of contents: title: The bear and the paving stone --; title: The sandman is coming --; title: In the old castle.