Record details

• ISBN: 1400044618
• ISBN: 9781400044610
• Physical Description: ix, 333 pages ; 25 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Blind willow, sleeping woman -- Birthday girl -- New York mining disaster -- Airplane: or, How he talked to himself as if reciting poetry -- The mirror -- A folklore for my generation: a pre-history of late-stage capitalism -- Hunting knife -- A perfect day for kangaroos -- Dabchick -- Man-eating cats -- A "poor aunt" story -- Nausea 1979 -- The seventh man -- The year of spaghetti -- Tony Takitani -- The rise and fall of Sharpie Cakes -- The ice man -- Crabs -- Firefly -- Chance Traveler -- Hanalei Bay -- Where I'm likely to find it -- The kidney-shaped stone that moves everey day -- A Shinagawa monkey.

Target Audience Note:

790L Lexile

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Subject:

Short stories, Japanese.

Genre:

Fiction.