WHERE THE WILD LADIES ARE

Witty, inventive, and profound, Matsuda Aoko's collection of linked stories is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional Japanese ghost stories. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese women's lives.

Summary

Witty, inventive, and profound, Matsuda Aoko's collection of linked stories is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional Japanese ghost stories. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese women's lives.

Product details

• Authors: Matsuda Aoko, Aoko Matsuda, Matsuda Aoko
• Assisted by: Polly Barton (Translation), Barton Polly (Translation)
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2020
• EAN: 9781911284383
• ISBN: 978-1-911284-38-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Belletristik in Übersetzung, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary