The Square Persimmon, and Other Stories

by Takashi Atoda and 阿刀田 高

The Square Persimmon and Other Stories is an introduction to oneof Japan 's most popular and versatile writers of fiction . In these eleven stories, Takashi Atoda examines universal themes-first love,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804816441
• ISBN13: 9780804816441
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A touch of the Japanese feeling for life

The book contains 11 short stories. They are all very different, with ingenious plots, but all have the feeling of the Japanese "inner life" in them. My only regret is that this appears to be the only English translation of his many collections of short stories.

The Square Persimmon

Takashi Atoda is a prodigious writer of popular fiction in Japan and deserves the attention of the outside world due to his universal themes of first love, lost love, change and fate with which he imbues a dreamlike quality. Small seemingly insignificant acts take on important meanings, and one realizes how much one is missing in the western world of hasty observations. A book not to be missed to further one's understanding of the Japanese and their relationships.