The pieces in this volume center on living creatures: from a dialogue between a crow and a dog, to a town's romance with a gazelle, fostering strange pets, living with a bear, following a cat, communing with wild boars, and more! Satoshi Kitamura contributed a series of graphic vignettes entitled "Fish in Muddy Waters." Vol. 5 of MONKEY is 176 pages of full color, featuring the best of contemporary Japanese literature and new work by American writers (Kelly Link, Laird Hunt, and more!)—all friends of MONKEY. 

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MONKEY: New Writing from Japan is the English version of the Tokyo-based Japanese literary journal MONKEY, founded by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most acclaimed translators of American fiction.

Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches

Print Length: 184 pages