{"product_id":"at-the-edge-of-the-woods-9781949641288","title":"At the Edge of the Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision...Ono continues to captivate.\" --Bryan Washington, author of \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling into a house at the edge of the woods. But something is off. A sound, at first like coughing and then like laughter, emanates from the nearby forest. Fantastical creatures, it is said, live out there in a castle where feudal lords reigned and Resistance fighters fell. When the mother, fearing another miscarriage, returns to her family's home to give birth to a second child, father and son are left to their own devices in rural isolation. Haunted by the ever-present woods, they look on as the TV flashes with floods and processions of refugees. The boy brings a mysterious half-naked old woman home, but before the father can make sense of her presence, she disappears. A mail carrier with gnashing teeth visits to deliver nothing but gossip of violence. A tree stump in the yard refuses to die, no matter how generously the poison is applied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn allegory for alienation and climate catastrophe unlike any other, \u003cem\u003eAt the Edge of the Woods\u003c\/em\u003e is a psychological tale where myth and fantasy are not the dominion of childhood innocence but the poison fruit borne of the paranoia and violence of contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOno, Masatsugu:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Masatsugu Ono is the author of numerous novels, including \u003cem\u003eMizu ni umoreru haka\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Water-Covered Grave\u003c\/em\u003e), which won the Asahi Award for New Writers, and \u003cem\u003eNigiyakana wan ni seowareta fune\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eEcho on the Bay\u003c\/em\u003e, Two Lines Press, 2020), which won the Mishima Prize. A prolific translator from the French--including works by Èdouard Glissant and Marie NDiaye--Ono received the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's highest literary honor, in 2015. He lives in Tokyo.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinters Carpenter, Juliet:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Juliet Winters Carpenter was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1948. She is a veteran translator and double recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese Literature, in 1980 for Abe Kōbō's \u003cem\u003eSecret Rendezvous\u003c\/em\u003e and in 2014 for Minae Mizumura's \u003cem\u003eA True Novel\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to numerous works on Japanese culture and religion, she has translated fiction by authors such as Enchi Fumiko, Tawara Machi, Watanabe Shin'ichi, Miyabe Miyuki, Shiba Ryōtarō, Miura Shion, and Hirano Keiichirō. With Aotani Yüko, she edited the bilingual book \u003cem\u003eGems of Japanese Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\/ \u003cem\u003eEigo rōdoku de tanoshimu Nihon bungaku\u003c\/em\u003e. A professor emerita of Doshisha Women's College, she lives with her husband on Whidbey Island in Washington State.","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725648531730,"sku":"9781949641288","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80d2b162-0786-4d4b-b5e0-e478c26f2b14.jpg?v=1734837920","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/at-the-edge-of-the-woods-9781949641288","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}