Kamusari Tales Told at Night by Shion Miura Paperback Book

Description: Kamusari Tales Told at Night by Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village.Its been a year since Yuki Hirano left home—or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means "courage," and Yuki hopes to live up to it. Hes adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.Yukis crush on the only other young single person in the village isnt a secret. Yet how impressed can she be with someone at least five years younger who makes less money and doesnt even own a car? More daunting, shes in love with another man. Finally finding his place among the villagers, a feeling deepened by his crush, Yuki seems headed for a dream life of adventure and camaraderie—and Nao could be the missing piece of that dream. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Shion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight). In 2006, she won the Naoki Prize for her story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town). Her other novels include Kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru (The Wind Blows Hard), Kogure-so monogatari (The Kogure Apartments), and Ano ie ni kurasu yonin no onna (The Four Women Living in That House). Her other works in English, all translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, include The Easy Life in Kamusari (Kamusari naanaa nichijo), volume one in her Forest series, and The Great Passage (Fune o amu), which was made into an award-winning motion picture and received both the Booksellers Award in Japan in 2012 and an Earphones Award. Miura has also published more than fifteen collections of essays and is a manga aficionado.Juliet Winters Carpenter is a professor emerita of Doshisha Womens College of Liberal Arts. Her first translated novel, Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe, received the 1980 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. In 2014, her translation of A True Novel by Minae Mizumura received the same award. Besides Shion Miuras The Great Passage and two-volume Forest series, Carpenters recent translations include Mizumuras An I-Novel, Keiichiro Hiranos At the End of the Matinee, and Tru Hagas Pax Tokugawana: The Cultural Flowering of Japan, 1603–1853. Her forthcoming translations include Masatsugu Onos At the Edge of the Wood and Kiyoko Muratas A Woman of Pleasure. Carpenter lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State. Review Praise for The Easy Life in Kamusari"Fans of all ages should enjoy the authors blend of the traditional and the contemporary…In a battle of Japanese settings, wondrous mountains win big over bustling cities." —Kirkus ReviewsPraise for The Great PassageWinner of an Earphones Award, Fiction"Mastery of words may not result in masterly communication, and a great dictionary, like a love story, is the result of people puzzling over their choices—a classic tension that has made The Great Passage a prizewinner in Japan, as well as both a successful feature film and an animated television series." —The New York Times"Swirling with witty enchantment, The Great Passage proves to be, well, utterly great. Readers should be advised to get ready to sigh with delighted satisfaction and awe-inspiring admiration." —Booklist (starred review)"The Great Passage has a philosophy of thoughtfulness and dedication to words that any reader will understand…Miuras prose—and Carpenters translation—glides along, smooth and precise, with flashes of quiet poetry." —Metropolis"The Great Passage is interwoven with romantic love stories, but ultimately it is the passion of the characters, their friendship, and their devotion to their task that direct and complete the narrative and turn it from simply a good book to a great one." —Talia Franks, Three Percent Review Quote Praise for The Easy Life in Kamusari "Fans of all ages should enjoy the authors blend of the traditional and the contemporary...In a battle of Japanese settings, wondrous mountains win big over bustling cities." -- Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Great Passage Winner of an Earphones Award, Fiction "Mastery of words may not result in masterly communication, and a great dictionary, like a love story, is the result of people puzzling over their choices--a classic tension that has made The Great Passage a prizewinner in Japan, as well as both a successful feature film and an animated television series." -- The New York Times "Swirling with witty enchantment, The Great Passage proves to be, well, utterly great. Readers should be advised to get ready to sigh with delighted satisfaction and awe-inspiring admiration." -- Booklist (starred review) " The Great Passage has a philosophy of thoughtfulness and dedication to words that any reader will understand...Miuras prose--and Carpenters translation--glides along, smooth and precise, with flashes of quiet poetry." -- Metropolis " The Great Passage is interwoven with romantic love stories, but ultimately it is the passion of the characters, their friendship, and their devotion to their task that direct and complete the narrative and turn it from simply a good book to a great one." --Talia Franks, Three Percent Details ISBN1542028884 Author Juliet Winters Carpenter Pages 190 Publisher Amazon Publishing Series Forest Year 2022 Translator Juliet Winters Carpenter ISBN-10 1542028884 ISBN-13 9781542028882 Publication Date 2022-05-10 UK Release Date 2022-05-10 Format Paperback Imprint AmazonCrossing Place of Publication Seattle Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2022-05-10 NZ Release Date 2022-05-10 US Release Date 2022-05-10 DEWEY 895.636 Series Number 2 Audience General Alternative 9781713644774 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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