![]() A newlywed notices that her spouse’s features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Buy The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, Asa Yoneda from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on. About the author (2018) Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories Yukiko Motoya No preview available - 2018. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. ![]() ![]() Summary: 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 Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). Yukiko Motoya ( ) is a seasoned Japanese author, playwright, voice actress and theatre director. ![]()
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