Japan Stories Marzanna Bogumila Kielar

Japan Stories Marzanna Bogumila KielarJayne Josos new book is a collection of stories and short fiction set in Japan. Each is centred on a particular character a sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia struck father, a widow in the far north reflecting on her provincial life, a bookseller and tells a compelling story about them. Together these short narratives become a mosaic of a life in contemporary Japan, its people, its society, its thinking, its character. With the

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