The Bear and the Paving Stone

Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and warVisiting a friend in the French countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical whim, religious identity, and seeing without sight; a walk along the seashore, upon the anniversary of a death, becomes a reverie on building sandcastles; and an innocent break-in at the ruins of an archbishop's residence takes a turn towards disaster.In three stories that prove the unavoidable connections of our past, Toshiyuki Horie creates a haunting world of dreams and memories where everyone ends up where they began - whether they want to or not.

Product details

• Authors: Toshiyuki Horie, Horie Toshiyuki, Geraint Howells
• Assisted by: Geraint Howells (Translation), Professor Geraint Howells (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781782274377
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-437-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Japanese Novellas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Japanese, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general