ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Date
Monday 12 July 2021
Time
7.00pm (BST)
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Online event
Free for Japan Society Members

Book available from Tilted Axis,  AbeBooks, Amazon and Book Depository 
Japanese version available here

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Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japan’s most exciting writers. In a company run by the mysterious Mr Tei, strange things are afoot – incense sticks lead to a surprise encounter; a young man reflects on his mother’s death; a foxlike woman finally finds her true calling. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese women’s lives.

Aoko Matsuda is a writer and translator. In 2013, her debut book, Stackable, was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize and the Noma Literary New Face Prize. In 2019, her short story 'The Woman Dies' (from the collection The Year of No Wild Flowers), published on GRANTA online, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her novella The Girl Who Is Getting Married was published by Strangers Press in 2016. She has translated work by Karen Russell, Amelia Gray and Carmen Maria Machado into Japanese.

If you have any questions, please call the Japan Society office on 020 3075 1996 or email events@japansociety.org.uk.

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