A Hundred Years and a Day
34 Stories
This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level.
In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, alienated world, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet the women who share a house after the outbreak of war before going their separate ways once it is over; the man who lives in a succession of rooftop apartments; the diverging lives of two brothers who are raised as latch-key kids by factory workers; the old ramen restaurant that endures despite the demolition of all surrounding buildings; people who watch a new type of spaceship lift off from a pier that once belonged to an island resort; and more.
These 34 tales from all over the planet have the compulsive power of news reports, narrated in a crisp yet allegorical style.
Details
PUBLISH DATE
02/25/25
PISBN
PRICE
9798988688730
$18.95
GENRE
Literary Fiction
EISBN
PRICE
9798988688747
$9.95
DIMENSIONS
5 x 8"
HARDCOVER ISBN
PRICE
9798988688754
$39.95
# OF PAGES
184
AUDIOBOOK ISBN
PRICE
NA
NA
Praise
"Shibasaki makes us think about the way stories are told, what we expect, and what we think we know. She is very good at giving us the pleasure of wondering how things are going to happen rather than what is going to happen, and then she reverses this."
—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
Japanese reviews of A Hundred Years and a Day
“This collection offers a series of those startling moments when the lives of some distant, unknown someone become, fleetingly, your own.”
—Sachiko Kishimoto, author and translator
“Behold as time and space are warped through the power of words. This is a feat only literature can achieve."
—Masafumi Gotoh, musician, Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Praise for Spring Garden
“Like a good meditation: quiet, surprising and deeply satisfying.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Atmospheric, meditative story of memory and loss in a gentrifying Tokyo neighborhood . . . An elegant story that is in many ways more reminiscent of Mishima and Akutagawa than many contemporary Japanese writers.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Video
Book Photos
Retail Outlets
Books sold at
E-Books sold at
Audiobooks sold at
