The Lonesome Bodybuilder - Yukiko Motoya, Asa Yoneda (Translator) torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Asia Asian Literature Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Japan Japanese Literature Magical Realism Short Stories

Written by Yukiko Motoya, Asa Yoneda (Translator)
Read by Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Richard Powers, Tanya Eby, Kate Mulligan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room - and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices her husband’s features are beginning to slide around his face - to match her own.

In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers.

©2018 Yukiko Motoya (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
Release date: 11-06-18