MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 1: FOOD

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• Japanese fiction in translation is exploding in popularity and winning awards from Yu Miris Tokyo Ueno Station, which won a 2020 National Book Award in Translated Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year to Mieko Kawakamis Breasts and Eggs, which was also recognized as a New York Times Notable Book and TIME magazines 10 Best Books of 2020.
• Japanese women writers have really taken off. MONKEY is known for championing women writers, such as Mieko Kawakami, Hiromi It, Hiromi Kawakami, and Kikuko Tsumura.
• MONKEY is a beautifully designed, full-color, large-format annual anthology, featuring graphic narratives and commissioned illustrations throughout.

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Novelists Haruki Murakami and Mieko Kawakami make plans to meet in a cave, trade stories, and roast rats over a campfire. A few pages later, director Hirokazu Koreeda revisits a favorite story by Naoya Shiga, about a barber whose murderous outburst reminds him of Raymond Carvers writing and inspired his own cinematic ideas. Yko Ogawa narrates a haunting sequence of illustrations by Canadian artist Jon Klassen. Aoko Matsuda shows us how to physically dissect a misogynist. And thats before you get to a Noh play, haiku and tanka poems, and the sketches, photographs, and manga of a themed section on the allure of food. --Roland Kelts, Nikkei Asia

An astonishment, by turns playful and profound, that makes you wish it were monthly. --Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

MONKEY is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work. --Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome

Author Bio

TED GOOSSEN teaches Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakamis Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translations of Hiromi Kawakamis People from My Neighbourhood (Granta Books) and Naoya Shigas Reconciliation (Canongate) were published in 2020.
MOTOYUKI SHIBATA translates American literature and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY. He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers, among others. His translation of Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. Among his recent translations is Eric McCormacks Cloud.