Author: Horie, Toshiyuki
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 26 September 2024 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 128 pages
197 x 128 x 9 | 120g
Winner
of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and
war
Visiting a friend in the French
countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical whim,
religious identity, and seeing without sight; a walk along the seashore, upon
the anniversary of a death, becomes a reverie on building sandcastles; and an
innocent break-in at the ruins of an archbishop's residence takes a turn
towards disaster.
In three stories that prove the
unavoidable connections of our past, Toshiyuki Horie creates a haunting world
of dreams and memories where everyone ends up where they began - whether they
want to or not.
Toshiyuki
Horie (born 1964) is a scholar of French literature and a
professor at Waseda University. He has won many literary prizes, including
the Mishima Yukio Prize, Akutagawa Prize (for The Bear and the
Paving Stone), the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, the Tanizaki
Jun'ichiro Prize and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature (twice).
