{"product_id":"unusual-fragments-20th-century-japanese-fiction-9781949641752","title":"Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComposing a fuller picture of the literary era that brought us Osamu Dazai and Kō\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eō Abe, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnusual Fragments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e foregrounds stories of alienation with surprising humor and imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949641752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarah Coolidge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45017844842677,"sku":"9781949641752","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_abe57c27-88ff-4612-949f-2a8c3b66459c.jpg?v=1736833122","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/unusual-fragments-20th-century-japanese-fiction-9781949641752","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}