by Kyoko Selden (Editor), Jolisa Gracewood (Editor)
The first volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, makes available representative examples of annotated Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of books--six volumes are planned--provides rubi for nearly all kanji at first use. Each story is also included in a plain-text version. Along with the extensive annotations provided, the collection serves as a resource for students of modern Japanese literature and can also be used as an intermediate to advanced language text. The volume is printed Japanese-style, with pages ordered from right to left.The present volume, the first in the collection, introduces stories by three important postwar authors: "Readers on the Train," "A Dictionary Village," and "A Town Called Z" from Fox-Possessed Moon, by Tawada Yoko; My Friend, by Hayashi Kyoko; and Trees and Grass, by Nakagami Kenji.
Author Biography
Kyoko Selden was a Senior Lecturer in Japanese in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Her translations include The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (M. E. Sharpe, 1989); Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction (with Noriko Mizuta, M. E. Sharpe, 1991).