
Picnic in the Storm
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
''In Yukiko Motoya''s delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves?and the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentences?are reminiscent, at leas...
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
''In Yukiko Motoya''s delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves?and the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentences?are reminiscent, at leas...