Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
Paperback Published on: 20/06/2024
Price: £9.99
From the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt—and with an afterword by Sayaka Murata—Asa is a playful and surreal collection of three short tales that on first read, are classic Japanese magical realism, but conceal salient themes on women's lives, mental illness, trauma and submission. Like only the best storytelling can, these stories entertain, then disturb, then ignite the imagination.
Synopsis
Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit.
Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing.
Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her sofa.
Each of these three stories begins in a reasonable place-but by the end you'll find yourself in another world altogether.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- ISBN: 9780571384136
- Number of pages: 208
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
- Languages: English
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Short stories from Natsuko Imamura
This is a collection of 3 short stories, the first short story collection by Natsuko Imamura. I have read This is Amiko, Do You Copy? which I enjoyed, and ... READ MORE
You'll either like or you won't
Having enjoyed The Woman in the Purple Skirt, I decided to give these short stories a try. The afterword notes that these 3 stories were all previously pub... READ MORE
A quirky, but hard-hitting collection
3 short stories that hold deep and meaningful messages within odd and surreal narratives. Asa is perfect for readers of Convenience Store Woman, Breasts an... READ MORE
Short stories that cross between reality and dreams
On the surface, these three short stories—this is by far the shortest book I've read in a long while—are about surreal moments of transformation and reinca... READ MORE
Japanese surrealism in short story format
A collection of three short stories, loosely connected by surrealist overtones, as well as a sense of disassociation from contemporary life. The first stor... READ MORE