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- Book Title
- Where the Wild Ladies Are
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- Counterpoint Press
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- 2020
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- Contemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Ghost, Absurdist, Literary
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
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Contemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Ghost, Absurdist, Literary
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2020
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Reviews
"Matsuda's groundbreaking collection turns traditional Japanese ghost and yokai stories on their heads by championing wild, complex women . . . Matsuda's subversive revisionist tales are consistently exciting." -- Publishers Weekly "Preface any storytelling format with 'traditional,' and audiences will have no expectations of feminist agency. Thankfully, prizewinning Japanese writer Matsuda imagines reclamation and brilliantly transforms fairy tales and folk legends into empowering exposés, adventures, manifestos . . . Adroitly translated by UK-based Polly Barton . . . Matsuda enthralls with both insight and bite." --Terry Hong, Booklist (starred review) "[Matsuda] has a light but lasting touch . . . A delightful, daring collection." -- Kirkus Reviews "These ghosts are not the monstrous, vengeful spirits of the original stories; they are real people with agency and personalities, finally freed from the restraints placed on living women. Funny, beautiful, surreal and relatable, this is a phenomenal book." --Claire Kohda Hazleton, The Guardian "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "Matsuda punctures the folktale serenity and brings us into the now through references to the cruelties of global capitalism and western cultural hegemony." --Julia Irion Martins, Full Stop " Where the Wild Ladies Are immediately became one of my favorite story collections. The ghosts have got the numbers on us, as Matsuda knows, and it's a joy to see the living and the dead by the light of her radiant imagination. At once playful, joyful, and radically subversive." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories "Aoko Matsuda's feverish mashups of the civilized and the wild, the mythological and the modern, are daringly strange and hauntingly funny. Her stories burrow into a subterranean place in the psyche where dreams, fairy tales, and ghost stories mingle in a raucous, beguiling party that I wished I never had to leave." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Intimations "In these absorbing stories, Matsuda animates ancient tales with a humor and resonance that will be thrilling to the modern reader. But she goes beyond even that; she suffuses them with heart, making them her very own. For fans of fabulist fiction, this is as good as it gets." --Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot "This was an amazing read. A troupe of women are sent in from another world in order to help relieve the angst of the people in this world." --Hiroko Kitamura, Hon no zasshi sha "Turning one's back on despair and instead channeling all one's energy into living as one's true self is what gives one the strength to take on spectral form. This is a call to power to live with sufficient conviction to become ghosts." --Akiko Ohtake, Asahi shimbun "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami, "Matsuda's groundbreaking collection turns traditional Japanese ghost and yokai stories on their heads by championing wild, complex women . . . Matsuda's subversive revisionist tales are consistently exciting." -- Publishers Weekly "[Matsuda] has a light but lasting touch . . . A delightful, daring collection." -- Kirkus Reviews "These ghosts are not the monstrous, vengeful spirits of the original stories; they are real people with agency and personalities, finally freed from the restraints placed on living women. Funny, beautiful, surreal and relatable, this is a phenomenal book." --Claire Kohda Hazleton, The Guardian "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "Matsuda punctures the folktale serenity and brings us into the now through references to the cruelties of global capitalism and western cultural hegemony." --Julia Irion Martins, Full Stop " Where the Wild Ladies Are immediately became one of my favorite story collections. The ghosts have got the numbers on us, as Matsuda knows, and it's a joy to see the living and the dead by the light of her radiant imagination. At once playful, joyful, and radically subversive." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories "Aoko Matsuda's feverish mashups of the civilized and the wild, the mythological and the modern, are daringly strange and hauntingly funny. Her stories burrow into a subterranean place in the psyche where dreams, fairy tales, and ghost stories mingle in a raucous, beguiling party that I wished I never had to leave." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Intimations "In these absorbing stories, Matsuda animates ancient tales with a humor and resonance that will be thrilling to the modern reader. But she goes beyond even that; she suffuses them with heart, making them her very own. For fans of fabulist fiction, this is as good as it gets." --Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot "This was an amazing read. A troupe of women are sent in from another world in order to help relieve the angst of the people in this world." --Hiroko Kitamura, Hon no zasshi sha "Turning one's back on despair and instead channeling all one's energy into living as one's true self is what gives one the strength to take on spectral form. This is a call to power to live with sufficient conviction to become ghosts." --Akiko Ohtake, Asahi shimbun "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami, "Matsuda's groundbreaking collection turns traditional Japanese ghost and yokai stories on their heads by championing wild, complex women . . . Matsuda's subversive revisionist tales are consistently exciting." -- Publishers Weekly "Preface any storytelling format with 'traditional,' and audiences will have no expectations of feminist agency. Thankfully, prizewinning Japanese writer Matsuda imagines reclamation and brilliantly transforms fairy tales and folk legends into empowering exposés, adventures, manifestos . . . Adroitly translated by UK-based Polly Barton . . . Matsuda enthralls with both insight and bite." --Terry Hong, Booklist (starred review) "[Matsuda] has a light but lasting touch . . . A delightful, daring collection." -- Kirkus Reviews "These ghosts are not the monstrous, vengeful spirits of the original stories; they are real people with agency and personalities, finally freed from the restraints placed on living women. Funny, beautiful, surreal and relatable, this is a phenomenal book." --Claire Kohda Hazleton, The Guardian "A wondrously surreal yet realistically grounded take on traditional Japanese ghost tales, Matsuda deftly reworks classic stories by placing the female spirits front and center. Her pragmatic ghosts give beauty advice, take lovers and long baths, and even babysit for an overworked single mother . . . In Matsuda's reimaginings, the ghosts take control with agency, wit and compassion--and a streak of pop culture flair." --Kris Kosaka, The Japan Times "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "Matsuda punctures the folktale serenity and brings us into the now through references to the cruelties of global capitalism and western cultural hegemony." --Julia Irion Martins, Full Stop " Where the Wild Ladies Are immediately became one of my favorite story collections. The ghosts have got the numbers on us, as Matsuda knows, and it's a joy to see the living and the dead by the light of her radiant imagination. At once playful, joyful, and radically subversive." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories "Aoko Matsuda's feverish mashups of the civilized and the wild, the mythological and the modern, are daringly strange and hauntingly funny. Her stories burrow into a subterranean place in the psyche where dreams, fairy tales, and ghost stories mingle in a raucous, beguiling party that I wished I never had to leave." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Intimations "In these absorbing stories, Matsuda animates ancient tales with a humor and resonance that will be thrilling to the modern reader. But she goes beyond even that; she suffuses them with heart, making them her very own. For fans of fabulist fiction, this is as good as it gets." --Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami, Praise for the UK edition of Where the Wild Ladies Are Translating Women , 1 of 20 Books to Watch Out for This Year She the People , 1 of 70 Books by Women Authors to Look Out for This Year "These ghosts are not the monstrous, vengeful spirits of the original stories; they are real people with agency and personalities, finally freed from the restraints placed on living women. Funny, beautiful, surreal and relatable, this is a phenomenal book." --Claire Kohda Hazleton, The Guardian "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "This was an amazing read. A troupe of women are sent in from another world in order to help relieve the angst of the people in this world." --Hiroko Kitamura, Hon no zasshi sha "Turning one's back on despair and instead channeling all one's energy into living as one's true self is what gives one the strength to take on spectral form. This is a call to power to live with sufficient conviction to become ghosts." --Akiko Ohtake, Asahi shimbun "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami Praise for The Girl Who Is Getting Married "Matsuda plays with words to create and reshape concrete images and abstract illusions; and, in many ways, this short story feels like an extended prose poem. That being said, it doesn't demand any unnecessary work from the reader, who is invited to explore the evocative emotional chiaroscuro of its dreamspace along with the narrator. The story is carefully translated and delightfully easy to read, and it's a lot of fun to get lost in its labyrinth." --Kathryn Hemmann, Contemporary Japanese Literature "One nice thing this decade was discovering the funny, surreal, slyly ingenuous, sometimes eerily incantatory fiction of Aoko Matsuda. In this short novella, Matsuda's longest work to be translated so far, the narrator travels up five flights of stairs to see the titular girl who is getting married, while reflecting on their relationship--now intimate, now distant, now ontologically suspect. The girl who is getting married is referred to only as 'the girl who is getting married,' which lets Matsuda write sentences like: 'The girl who is getting married announced that she was now a girl who is getting married. The girl who is getting married is getting married!' It's a delightfully strange story strange right down to its syntax." --Adam Ehrlich Sachs, author of The Organs of Sense , for Literary Hub "The storytelling is defined by psychological precision and sharp, aphoristic commentary (Of a dead goldfish, the narrator says: 'Even the smallest of deaths has an undeniable splendour when it happens in front of you', and a shopping mall: 'It is so bright you could forget the human race has such a thing as shadows'). Matsuda spins the ordinary (the price of tights, for example, or hair removal) into the extraordinary." --Eluned Gramich, The Japan Society Review, Praise for the UK edition of Where the Wild Ladies Are Translating Women , 1 of 20 Books to Watch Out for This Year She the People , 1 of 70 Books by Women Authors to Look Out for This Year BBC Culture , One of the Best Books of the Year "These ghosts are not the monstrous, vengeful spirits of the original stories; they are real people with agency and personalities, finally freed from the restraints placed on living women. Funny, beautiful, surreal and relatable, this is a phenomenal book." --Claire Kohda Hazleton, The Guardian "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "This was an amazing read. A troupe of women are sent in from another world in order to help relieve the angst of the people in this world." --Hiroko Kitamura, Hon no zasshi sha "Turning one's back on despair and instead channeling all one's energy into living as one's true self is what gives one the strength to take on spectral form. This is a call to power to live with sufficient conviction to become ghosts." --Akiko Ohtake, Asahi shimbun "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami Praise for The Girl Who Is Getting Married "Matsuda plays with words to create and reshape concrete images and abstract illusions; and, in many ways, this short story feels like an extended prose poem. That being said, it doesn't demand any unnecessary work from the reader, who is invited to explore the evocative emotional chiaroscuro of its dreamspace along with the narrator. The story is carefully translated and delightfully easy to read, and it's a lot of fun to get lost in its labyrinth." --Kathryn Hemmann, Contemporary Japanese Literature "One nice thing this decade was discovering the funny, surreal, slyly ingenuous, sometimes eerily incantatory fiction of Aoko Matsuda. In this short novella, Matsuda's longest work to be translated so far, the narrator travels up five flights of stairs to see the titular girl who is getting married, while reflecting on their relationship--now intimate, now distant, now ontologically suspect. The girl who is getting married is referred to only as 'the girl who is getting married,' which lets Matsuda write sentences like: 'The girl who is getting married announced that she was now a girl who is getting married. The girl who is getting married is getting married!' It's a delightfully strange story strange right down to its syntax." --Adam Ehrlich Sachs, author of The Organs of Sense , for Literary Hub "The storytelling is defined by psychological precision and sharp, aphoristic commentary (Of a dead goldfish, the narrator says: 'Even the smallest of deaths has an undeniable splendour when it happens in front of you', and a shopping mall: 'It is so bright you could forget the human race has such a thing as shadows'). Matsuda spins the ordinary (the price of tights, for example, or hair removal) into the extraordinary." --Eluned Gramich, The Japan Society Review, "These ghosts are not the monstrous, vengeful spirits of the original stories; they are real people with agency and personalities, finally freed from the restraints placed on living women. Funny, beautiful, surreal and relatable, this is a phenomenal book." --Claire Kohda Hazleton, The Guardian "Matsuda''s groundbreaking collection turns traditional Japanese ghost and yokai stories on their heads by championing wild, complex women . . . Matsuda''s subversive revisionist tales are consistently exciting." -- Publishers Weekly "Preface any storytelling format with ''traditional,'' and audiences will have no expectations of feminist agency. Thankfully, prizewinning Japanese writer Matsuda imagines reclamation and brilliantly transforms fairy tales and folk legends into empowering exposés, adventures, manifestos . . . Adroitly translated by UK-based Polly Barton . . . Matsuda enthralls with both insight and bite." --Terry Hong, Booklist (starred review) "[Matsuda] has a light but lasting touch . . . A delightful, daring collection." -- Kirkus Reviews "Aoko Matsuda''s short story collection is full of feminist retellings of Japanese folktales. Which: hell yes. By taking ancient stories and setting them in modern-day Japan, Matsuda insightfully uses the ghost tales to reveal greater truths about our society . . . Overall, these stories are engaging and surreal and smart." --Emily Burack, One of Hey Alma ''s Favorite Books for Fall "A wondrously surreal yet realistically grounded take on traditional Japanese ghost tales, Matsuda deftly reworks classic stories by placing the female spirits front and center. Her pragmatic ghosts give beauty advice, take lovers and long baths, and even babysit for an overworked single mother . . . In Matsuda''s reimaginings, the ghosts take control with agency, wit and compassion--and a streak of pop culture flair." --Kris Kosaka, The Japan Times "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda''s collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "Matsuda punctures the folktale serenity and brings us into the now through references to the cruelties of global capitalism and western cultural hegemony." --Julia Irion Martins, Full Stop " Where the Wild Ladies Are immediately became one of my favorite story collections. The ghosts have got the numbers on us, as Matsuda knows, and it''s a joy to see the living and the dead by the light of her radiant imagination. At once playful, joyful, and radically subversive." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories "Aoko Matsuda''s feverish mashups of the civilized and the wild, the mythological and the modern, are daringly strange and hauntingly funny. Her stories burrow into a subterranean place in the psyche where dreams, fairy tales, and ghost stories mingle in a raucous, beguiling party that I wished I never had to leave." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Intimations "In these absorbing stories, Matsuda animates ancient tales with a humor and resonance that will be thrilling to the modern reader. But she goes beyond even that; she suffuses them with heart, making them her very own. For fans of fabulist fiction, this is as good as it gets." --Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author''s unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami, Praise for the UK edition of Where the Wild Ladies Are Translating Women , 1 of 20 Books to Watch Out for This Year She the People , 1 of 70 Books by Women Authors to Look Out for This Year "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "This was an amazing read. A troupe of women are sent in from another world in order to help relieve the angst of the people in this world." --Hiroko Kitamura, Hon no zasshi sha "Turning one's back on despair and instead channeling all one's energy into living as one's true self is what gives one the strength to take on spectral form. This is a call to power to live with sufficient conviction to become ghosts." --Akiko Ohtake, Asahi shimbun "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami Praise for The Girl Who Is Getting Married "Matsuda plays with words to create and reshape concrete images and abstract illusions; and, in many ways, this short story feels like an extended prose poem. That being said, it doesn't demand any unnecessary work from the reader, who is invited to explore the evocative emotional chiaroscuro of its dreamspace along with the narrator. The story is carefully translated and delightfully easy to read, and it's a lot of fun to get lost in its labyrinth." --Kathryn Hemmann, Contemporary Japanese Literature "One nice thing this decade was discovering the funny, surreal, slyly ingenuous, sometimes eerily incantatory fiction of Aoko Matsuda. In this short novella, Matsuda's longest work to be translated so far, the narrator travels up five flights of stairs to see the titular girl who is getting married, while reflecting on their relationship--now intimate, now distant, now ontologically suspect. The girl who is getting married is referred to only as 'the girl who is getting married,' which lets Matsuda write sentences like: 'The girl who is getting married announced that she was now a girl who is getting married. The girl who is getting married is getting married!' It's a delightfully strange story strange right down to its syntax." --Adam Ehrlich Sachs, author of The Organs of Sense , for Literary Hub "The storytelling is defined by psychological precision and sharp, aphoristic commentary (Of a dead goldfish, the narrator says: 'Even the smallest of deaths has an undeniable splendour when it happens in front of you', and a shopping mall: 'It is so bright you could forget the human race has such a thing as shadows'). Matsuda spins the ordinary (the price of tights, for example, or hair removal) into the extraordinary." --Eluned Gramich, The Japan Society Review, Praise for the UK edition of Where the Wild Ladies Are Translating Women , 1 of 20 Books to Watch Out for This Year "Taking a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories and crafting them into often humorous yet painfully relevant tales is a move of pure genius by Aoko Matsuda. Taking place in a contemporary setting, with a decidedly feminist bend, Where the Wild Ladies Are takes classic Japanese ghost stories--which make up some of the best in the world--and rewrite them to make them relevant to the current gender climate of modern-day Japan. Witty, biting, and poignant, Matsuda's collection is a pleasantly haunting surprise." --Jessica Esa, Metropolis "This was an amazing read. A troupe of women are sent in from another world in order to help relieve the angst of the people in this world." --Hiroko Kitamura, Hon no zasshi sha "Turning one's back on despair and instead channeling all one's energy into living as one's true self is what gives one the strength to take on spectral form. This is a call to power to live with sufficient conviction to become ghosts." --Akiko Ohtake, Asahi shimbun "An enjoyable and satisfying read, coming out of a sense of discomfort and unease around gender inequality. This is a short story collection where classic works from rakugo and kabuki are developed in the author's unique style." --Asayo Takii, Nami Praise for The Girl Who Is Getting Married "Matsuda plays with words to create and reshape concrete images and abstract illusions; and, in many ways, this short story feels like an extended prose poem. That being said, it doesn't demand any unnecessary work from the reader, who is invited to explore the evocative emotional chiaroscuro of its dreamspace along with the narrator. The story is carefully translated and delightfully easy to read, and it's a lot of fun to get lost in its labyrinth." --Kathryn Hemmann, Contemporary Japanese Literature "One nice thing this decade was discovering the funny, surreal, slyly ingenuous, sometimes eerily incantatory fiction of Aoko Matsuda. In this short novella, Matsuda's longest work to be translated so far, the narrator travels up five flights of stairs to see the titular girl who is getting married, while reflecting on their relationship--now intimate, now distant, now ontologically suspect. The girl who is getting married is referred to only as 'the girl who is getting married,' which lets Matsuda write sentences like: 'The girl who is getting married announced that she was now a girl who is getting married. The girl who is getting married is getting married!' It's a delightfully strange story strange right down to its syntax." --Adam Ehrlich Sachs, author of The Organs of Sense , for Literary Hub "The storytelling is defined by psychological precision and sharp, aphoristic commentary (Of a dead goldfish, the narrator says: 'Even the smallest of deaths has an undeniable splendour when it happens in front of you', and a shopping mall: 'It is so bright you could forget the human race has such a thing as shadows'). Matsuda spins the ordinary (the price of tights, for example, or hair removal) into the extraordinary." --Eluned Gramich, The Japan Society Review
Synopsis
In this "delightfully uncanny" collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales ( The New York Times Book Review ), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services--from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women--who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive "feminine" passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company. With Where the Wild Ladies Are , Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales--shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells--and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them.
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PL873.A86O3313 2020
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- e***_ (17)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSeller handles a massive inventory so I give them grace on the slow processing and shipping. They were very communicative and prompt with their response when I messaged in asking about it. Book was in good condition as described. Small ding on the page edges which wasn't mentioned, but that's fairly common even at your typical book store. Still a good value and I'd buy from them again.