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(★)(Eastern traditions clash with much more than Western culture in these twelve short stories and a novella set in modern-day Japan. A Zen koan holds the key to the death of a dolphin ; a sculptor relives his father´s death while shaping his art. A British woman and her Japanese boyfriend fall in love with an old-fashioned scale shop. An edgy English teacher sets her sights on a rising Japanese boxer. Two feuding American women take a strange trip to the Spice Islands. A housewife arranges one last meeting with her imprisoned Leftist lover. A yakuza character actor named Genji finally comes to accept his face./ The stories in this debut collection from award-winning poet Leza Lowitz are not about samurai or geisha, but people we might actually meet on a given day in the nameless streets of Tokyo : the strange, the ordinary, the scarred, and the real. ▼CONTENTS/ ●Notes On Love ●´Innocence´ ●Reply to Anything ●The School of Things ●Ghost Stories ●Figures of Speech ●Thirty-Six Views of The Imperial Wedding : (A Small Fable in Homage to Donald Barthelme) ●Lighthouses in the Pond ●Sayonara, Tokyo ●The Hatchback ●The Tale of Genji : Or Glass in the Face (In Which a Girl´s Love of Scars Sours) ●Green Tea to Go ●Poste Restante/) |