The Bear and the Paving Stone

Authors: Horie, Toshiyuki
Publisher: Steerforth Press
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC025000, FIC058000
ISBN: 9781782274384, Related ISBNs: 1782274375, 1782274383, 9781782274377, 9781782274384
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 160,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing

A Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend - talking about war, literature, and everything in between. As his ideas of his life become more entangled with his personal writing, the pangs of his past and his half-forgotten memories overlap and threaten his peace.

Owing a debt to French writers from La Fontaine to Proust, the three fable-like tales in The Bear and the Paving Stone are stories of loss, memory and a longing to belong.
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