商品簡介
In addition to "The Glass Slipper," this collection contains nine other stories held together by a common thread of self-perception: Yasuoka writes from the belief that the self has such depths that at times it can appear to be illusory. Set against the chaotic backdrop of the era running from before World War II to just after its end, these stories are infused with a timeless sense of novelty and humor that does not suffer from age. Highly praised by Haruki Murakami, The Glass Slipper and Other Stories continues to offer its readers a fresh literary experience.
作者簡介
Shotaro Yasuoka was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, in 1920. The son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, his early life involved frequent moves from one military post to the next. After the war, Yasuoka came down with spinal caries, and, with no chance for treatment without money, took on a series of odd jobs. It was while he was bedridden with this disease that he began his writing career. A leading figure in postwar Japanese literature, in 2001 Yasuoka received the Cultural Merit Award for his lifetime of literary activities.
