Japanese fairy tales - enchanting,enigmatic stories of animals,human beings and the great natural world.
Dark and innocent,sublime and whimsical,Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as'The Ungrateful Rat'where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap. There are morality tales such as'The Restaurant of Many Orders',where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa's best-known'Night Train to the Stars',where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens.
These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784877767Number of pages: 256Weight: 364 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 26 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'For readers who relish the disturbing material of fairy tale... Kenji Miyazawa's odd,masterly stories will be a delight'- New York Times
'Kenji Miyazawa fables are international-class'- David Mitchell
'Miyazawa moves you to sorrow,to laugh,chuckle,marvel - he makes you live'- Hiroaki Sato
'A marvelous writer who deserves to be much better known in English'- Kirkus
'Miyazawa seems to have been something of a genius'- Observer
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