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Where the wild ladies are /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matsuda, Aoko, 1979- (Author)
Other Authors: Barton, Polly (Translator) (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Soft Skull Press, [2020]
Edition:First Soft Skull edition.
Subjects:
Matsuda, Aoko, > 1979- > Translations into English.
Japan > Fiction.
Magic > Fiction.
Table of 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.