Taeko Kono

Nobuko Takagi

Takako Takahashi

Tomoko Yoshida

Lucy North (Translator)

Taruho Inagaki

Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)

Jeffrey Angles (Translator)

Philip Price (Translator)

Brian Bergstrom (Translator)

A young storm-chaser welcomes a jaded woman into the eye of a storm. The last man of a peculiar family, implausibly tiny in stature, attends a Mozart opera with his dedicated wife. A medical student coolly observes an adolescent boy as he contorts his body into violent positions. With tension and wit, the writers of Unusual Fragments, among them Nobuko Takagi, Yoshida Tomoko, and Inagaki Taruho, trace their taboo, feminist, bizarre themes to complicate what we think of as 20th century Japanese literature. What’s hiding just beneath the fiction of our perfectly ordered, happy lives? Something unusual. Something far more interesting.

Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction

高樹のぶ子

Returning to Tsurugi City with her eleven-year-old daughter to care for her ailing father, a famed sword maker, Chigiri Yamazaki, a divorced, single mother, takes it upon herself to preserve her father's failing business and is reunited with Go Imai, a freelance documentary filmmaker visiting Tsurugi where twenty-five years earlier he had done a story on Chigiri's father. 10,000 first printing.

Translucent Tree

Nobuko Takagi

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