The Lonesome Bodybuilder
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
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Written by:
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Yukiko Motoya
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A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won't come out of the fitting room - and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices her husband's features are beginning to slide around his face - to match her own.
In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.
BBC Culture Magazine Pick
Akutagawa Prize
Kenzaburo Oe Prize
Vulture.com Pick
Nylon Magazine Pick
Millions.com Pick
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Bustle Pick
©2018 Yukiko Motoya (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.