Family and Borghesia Rebecca Crane A captivating selection of short

A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Japan

the period she spent on a Fulbright scholarship from the US at Newnham College

Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy

resolutely internationalist like the artist

Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life – waterways

Family and Borghesia Rebecca Crane A captivating selection of shortFrom the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, two novellas chronicling domestic life, isolation and the passing of time. Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends. During a bout of pneumonia, Carmine uneasy in his life of aspiration and materialism begins to look back over opportunities