Still Life and Other Stories

by Junzo Shono, Wayne P. Lammers (Translator)

Overview

Winner of the Pen Center West Award, this delicate collection of thirteen linked tales reveals the flow of daily life in the modern Japanese family. Junzo Shono's artful layering of commonplace events, images, and conversations has been compared to haiku poetry crossed with an Ozu film. Starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781880656020
Publisher:	Stone Bridge Press
Publication date:	07/01/1998
Series:	Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature Series
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Junzo Shono was born in 1921 and lives in Kawasaki, Japan. Has won numerous literary awards, including the Yomiuri Prize for Evening Clouds. Raised in Japan, Wayne P. Lammers (Ph.D. in Japanese) taught at the university level. He was translation editor for Mangajin and is considered one of the finest translators of Japanese literature today.