The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

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Winner 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...