A modern classic of Japanese magical realism and political satire. In this sweeping magical-realist epic set in the fictional south sea island Republic of Navidad, Ikezawa gives his imagination free rein to reinvent the myths of the twentieth century Japan. The story takes off as a delegation of Japanese war veterans pays an official visit to the ex-World War II colony, only to see the Japanese flag burst into flames. The following day, the tour bus, and its passengers, simply vanish. The locals exchanges absurd rumors—the bus was last seen attending Catholic mass, the bus must have skipped across the lagoon—but the president suspects a covert guerrilla organization is trying to undermine his connections with Japan. Can the real answers to the mystery be found, or will the president have to be content with the surreal answers?

The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili

Literature & Fiction

IKEZAWA, Natsuki

United States

Haikasoru

Mariko/Mariquita (Keshiki)

Birnbaum, Alfred (TRN)

Literary

Strangers Press

Les Singes bleus

Genre Fiction

Actes-sud

TIO DU PACIFIQUE

PICQUIER

Ikezawa has been described as one of the best short story writers in the world today. 
When he won his country's highest literary award ten years ago, readers hailed the arrival of a new voice in Japanese fiction: clear, unerring, and resonant. As the title itself suggests, all four of the stories in this collection are in some way about people moving away from ordinary life, seeing things from a distance, as though looking at their world through the window of a spaceship moving into orbit. 
In the last and most daring piece of all, an international team is sent to explore a ruined site in northern Afghanistan. A helicopter crash reduces their number to two, a Japanese and a Frenchman, who decide to press on. Watched by a high, circling eagle, they find what appears to be a ruined citadel, among whose stones they hear a form of music so strange it seems to call to them from another world. And the longer they stay the deeper they are drawn into it, until they're forced to choose: to return, or to go beyond... 
Here, and we hope in other collections to come, readers will encounter a rare writer whose work attains the highest level of imagination, yet remains always anchored in a reassuring normality. Welcome to "a brave new lyrical world."

Still Lives

Keene, Dennis

Short Stories & Anthologies

Kodansha Amer Inc

Series Editor's Introduction - John H Stanfield II Foreword - Audrey F Manley Health and Women of Color - Marcia Bayne-Smith A Contextual Overview African American Women - Lorna Scott McBarnette American Indian and Alaska Native Women - Jo Ann Kauffman and Yvette K Joseph-Fox Asian/Pacific Islander American Women - Reiko Homma True and Tessie Guillermo Latino Women - Aida L Giachello Redefining Health in the 21st Century - Marcia Bayne-Smith and Lorna Scott McBarnette

A Burden of Flowers (Kan Yamaguchi Series)

Birnbaum, Alfred

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Kodansha USA Inc

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