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Parade : a folktale

Title
Parade : a folktale / Hiromi Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell ; illustrated by Takako Yoshitomi.
Author
Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958-
Publication
  • New York : Soft Skull, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Powell, Allison Markin
  • Yoshitomi, Takako
Description
79 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 16 cm
Summary
"On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together. 'Tell me a story from long ago, ' Sensei says. 'I wasn't alive long ago, ' Tsukiko says, 'but should I tell you a story from when I was little?' 'Please do, ' Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room, arguing with each other. They had human bodies, long noses, and wings. They were tengu, creatures that appear in Japanese folktales. The tengu attach themselves to Tsukiko and begin to follow her everywhere. Where did they come from and why are they here? And what other invisible and unacknowledged forces are acting upon Tsukiko's seemingly peaceful world?"--
Uniform Title
Parēdo. English
Alternative Title
Parēdo.
Subject
  • Children > Japan > Fiction
  • Tengu > Fiction
  • Tales > Japan
  • Children
  • Tales
  • Tengu
  • Japan
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Note
  • Originally published in Japanese by Heibonsha in 2002.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN
  • 9781593765804
  • 1593765800
LCCN
2019008880
OCLC
  • on1090279643
  • SCSB-9562470
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library