The Bear and the Paving Stone

Toshiyuki Horie, Geraint Howells

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English

Pushkin Press
24 January 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Romance

A Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend - talking about war, literature, and everything in between. As his ideas of his life become more entangled with his personal writing, the pangs of his past and his half-forgotten memories overlap and threaten his peace. Owing a debt to French writers from La Fontaine to Proust, the three fable like tales in The Bear and the Paving Stone are stories of loss, memory and a longing to belong.

By: Toshiyuki Horie
Translated by: Geraint Howells
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781782274377
ISBN 10: 1782274375
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 24 January 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Toshiyuki Horie (born 1964) is a scholar of French literature and a professor at Waseda University. He has won many literary prizes, including the Mishima Yukio Prize, Akutagawa Prize (for The Bear and the Paving Stone), the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, the Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature (twice).

Reviews for The Bear and the Paving Stone

It is a rather beautiful, very funny, often bitter or sadly gentle book that will entice and satisfy while leaving one thirsting for more. -- Bookanista