Still Life and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Junzo Shono was born in 1921 and lived in Kawasaki, Japan. His works have won numerous literary awards, including the Yomiuri Prize for Evening Clouds . Wayne P. Lammers is a translator of Japanese into English. Lammers grew up in Japan in an American household, using English at home and Japanese everywhere else. After building on this bilingual foundation by specializing in Japanese studies in college and graduate school, he taught Japanese language, literature, and culture at the university level for a number of years. Klappentext Delicate tales reveal the flow of life in the modern Japanese family, the accidental pleasures and the unexplained misfortunes. Shono's unique "snapshot" technique--the layering of commonplace events, images, and conversations--is like haiku poetry crossed with an Ozu-style film drama. Zusammenfassung 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

• Authors: W. P. Lammers, Junzo Shono
• Assisted by: W.P. Lammers (Translation), Wayne P Lammers (Translation), Wayne P. Lammers (Translation)
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9781880656020
• ISBN: 978-1-880656-02-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature; Rock Spring Collection of Japa; Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature; White Pine Press Poetry Prize
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature