Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction

by Alfred Birnbaum (Editor)

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Irreverent, post-Zen, at times bizarre, the stories in this remarkable collection of Japanese fiction chart new literary and cultural territory. In style and substance--as the title or the collection would suggest--this is something quite different from what the West has come to expect or the Japanese palate. The writers showcased here represent the brightest and the boldest of a new generation. Born after the war, coming or age in the booming eighties, they startle us with their range or show more emotion, energy, and experience. show less

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Alfred Birnbaum
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Hashimoto, Osamu (Contributor)
Hisauchi, Michio (Contributor)
Kobayashi, Kyoji (Contributor)
Makino, Eri (Contributor)
Murakami, Haruki (Contributor)
Ohara, Mariko (Contributor)
Shimada, Masahiko (Contributor)
Shimizu, Yoshimori (Contributor)
Takahashi, Genichiro (Contributor)
Takeno, Masato (Contributor)
Yamada, Amy (Contributor)

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1991 (collection) (collection)

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
895.63010805 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese fiction Anthologies and Collections
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PL782 .E8 .M66 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Collections
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