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The Bear and the Paving Stone

The Bear and the Paving Stone

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Author: Horie, Toshiyuki

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 26 September 2024 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 128 pages
197 x 128 x 9 | 120g

Winner

of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and

war

Visiting a friend in the French

countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical whim,

religious identity, and seeing without sight; a walk along the seashore, upon

the anniversary of a death, becomes a reverie on building sandcastles; and an

innocent break-in at the ruins of an archbishop's residence takes a turn

towards disaster.

In three stories that prove the

unavoidable connections of our past, Toshiyuki Horie creates a haunting world

of dreams and memories where everyone ends up where they began - whether they

want to or not.

Toshiyuki

Horie (born 1964) is a scholar of French literature and a

professor at Waseda University. He has won many literary prizes, including

the Mishima Yukio Prize, Akutagawa Prize (for The Bear and the

Paving Stone), the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, the Tanizaki

Jun'ichiro Prize and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature (twice).

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