The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, Yukiko Motoya mysteries & thrillers sends Kambili and her brother

sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt

a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten

success and possessions

Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian peninsula

The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, Yukiko Motoya mysteries & thrillers sends Kambili and her brotherWinner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). In the English language debut of one of Japans most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and