The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, Yukiko MotoyaWinner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). In the English language debut of one of Japans most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and

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