Yukinuma and Its Environs

Toshiyuki Horie · 2003 CE · Short Story · Japanese · Contemporary

Craftsmen and small-business owners in a fictional provincial town each face the end of a long working life. The stories are linked by place and by a shared slow decline of the local economy. Horie, who is also a translator of Paul Auster, was awarded the Tanizaki Prize for the collection.

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