Kindle, 333 pages
English language
Published Feb. 14, 2018
Kindle, 333 pages
English language
Published Feb. 14, 2018
Monkey Business is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine Monkey Business, which was founded in 2008 by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters.
Monkey Business aims to translate and present a wide array of established and emerging authors, showcasing the best of contemporary Japanese literature.
Volume 3 showcases Japanese writing new and old, with an apocalyptic view of Tokyo by Hideo Furukawa, a series of avant-garde poems by the prewar Korean poet Yi Sang, the debut work of Japan’s Grandma Moses of literature, Masatsugu Ono’s tale of monkeys and men, new stories by Hiromi Kawakami, Gen’ichiro Takahashi, Mieko Kawakami, a manga based on Kafka's Metamorphosis, new work from Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Charles Simic -- and much, much more.