Still Life and Other Stories

by Junzo Shono

Book Overview

Winner of the Pen Center West Award

A stunning tapestry of everyday life.

A young man, having failed his college entrance exams, becomes obsessed with a family card game. A businessman stays overnight at an inn and drinks with the innkeeper. A family parakeet seems to be dead but then climbs back on its perch.

This delicate collection of thirteen linked tales reveals the flow of daily life in the modern Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880656027
• ISBN13: 9781880656020
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A fantastic look into the human experience.

Nothing can be said or written about life but this book certainly comes close. Not only it captured the reader realization of the subtle life we might experience, this book will make you think about what important to one's life.