ARGONAUT BOOKS

Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her sofa. Each of these three stories begins in a reasonable place, but - by the end - you'll find yourself in another world altogether. Reviews Snappy Japanese surrealism . . . Like a lot of Japanese fiction in translation (I'm thinking Sayaka Murata, Hiromi Kawakami, Yoko Ogawa), Imamura's prose eschews ornamentation: she sets up her odd situations and lets them unfold in a doggedly s...Read More