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Where the wild ladies are
- Title
- Where the wild ladies are / Aoko Matsuda ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
- Author
- Matsuda, Aoko, 1979-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barton, Polly (Translator)
- Description
- xiii, 269 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, 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. 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."--
- Uniform Title
- Obachantachi no iru tokoro. English
- Alternative Title
- Obachantachi no iru tokoro.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Ghost stories.
- Short stories.
- Linked stories.
- Folk tales.
- Mythological fiction.
- Paranormal fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Contents
- Smartening up -- The peony lanterns -- My superpower -- Quite a catch -- The jealous type -- Where the wild ladies are -- Loved one -- A fox's life -- What she can do -- Enoki -- Silently burning -- A new recruit -- Team Sarashina -- A day off -- Having a blast -- The missing one -- On high.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2273
- ISBN
- 9781593766900
- 1593766904
- LCCN
- 2020017381
- OCLC
- 1139147968
- Author
- Matsuda, Aoko, 1979- author.
- Title
- Where the wild ladies are / Aoko Matsuda ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First Soft Skull edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Barton, Polly (Translator), translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2273