The Fox and Dr. Shimamura

by Christine Wunnicke

Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent--to his dismay--to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226247
• ISBN13: 9780811226240
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"