![]() Normal for many a bourgeois couple, right? Except the husband is made entirely of straw, and during the course of the argument, musical instruments mysteriously begin to tumble out of the hems of his body. In the worlds Motoya describes, strangeness is inseparable from those dynamics, which she takes to be worthy of attention.įor example, the very last story in the collection details an afternoon between a husband and wife who argue about the wife’s seatbelt scratching the door of the husband’s new BMW. ![]() Yukiko Motoya’s story collection “The Lonesome Bodybuilder,” her first in English, will appeal to readers who appreciate Murakami’s surrealism, but who lament his lack of attention to fully realized gender dynamics. ![]() Haruki Murakami has tended to crowd out other Japanese fiction writers in the American market. ![]()
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