A Souvenir of Japan

Name: A Souvenir of Japan
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ISBN: 9781529983722

Angela Carter

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Vintage Classics
20 October 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Brief Encounters

Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Angela Carter, weird fiction's most influential pioneer, and her transformative stories of finding oneself in the face of another world

Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela Carter

An Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man. A spurned lover seeks intimacy in another chance encounter. A boy stumbles upon a mirror world while walking in the woods. In five mesmerising, fantastical tales of 1970s Japan, Angela Carter explores what it means to arrive in a world different from one's own, and to transform profoundly - sometimes terrifyingly - in the process.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS- classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

By: Angela Carter
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 96g
ISBN: 9781529983722
ISBN 10: 152998372X
Series: Brief Encounters
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 20 October 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.