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Night Train to the Stars: Beloved, Enigmatic Japanese Folk Tales

by Kenji Miyazawa - £14.99  Vintage Publishing (2022)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9781784877767 | ISBN 10: 178487776x

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.
 
Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap/ There are morality tales such as 'The Restaurant of Many Orders', where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa's best-known 'Night Train to the Stars', where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens.
 
These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers.
 
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID MITCHELL AND AN INTRODUCTION BY KAORI NAGAI

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