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The Fox and Dr. Shimamura

By Christine Wunnicke, Philip Boehm (Translator)
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By Christine Wunnicke, Philip Boehm (Translator)
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A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novel

Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize


The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent—to his dismay—to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an ...

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FictionLiteratureFiction SubjectsWorld FictionLiterary Styles & Movements - FictionGerman FictionMagic Realism21st Century German Fiction