{"product_id":"kamusari-tales-told-at-night-9781542028882","title":"Kamusari Tales Told at Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Shion Miura, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Easy Life in Kamusari\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's been a year since Yuki Hirano left home--or more precisely, was booted from it--to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means \"courage,\" and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He's adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends--tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuki's crush on the only other young single person in the village isn't a secret. Yet how impressed can she be with someone at least five years younger who makes less money and doesn't even own a car? More daunting, she's in love with another man. Finally finding his place among the villagers, a feeling deepened by his crush, Yuki seems headed for a dream life of adventure and camaraderie--and Nao could be the missing piece of that dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiura, Shion:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eShion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with \u003ci\u003eKakuto suru mono ni maru\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eA Passing Grade for Those Who Fight\u003c\/i\u003e). In 2006, she won the Naoki Prize for her story collection \u003ci\u003eMahoro ekimae Tada Benriken\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Handymen in Mahoro Town\u003c\/i\u003e). Her other novels include \u003ci\u003eKaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Wind Blows Hard\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eKogure-so monogatari\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Kogure Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e), and \u003ci\u003eAno ie ni kurasu yonin no onna\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Four Women Living in That House\u003c\/i\u003e). Her other works in English, all translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, include \u003ci\u003eThe Easy Life in Kamusari\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKamusari naanaa nichijo\u003c\/i\u003e), volume one in her Forest series, and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Passage\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eFune o amu\u003c\/i\u003e), which was made into an award-winning motion picture and received both the Booksellers' Award in Japan in 2012 and an Earphones Award. Miura has also published more than fifteen collections of essays and is a manga aficionado.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinters Carpenter, Juliet:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJuliet Winters Carpenter is a professor emerita of Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts. Her first translated novel, \u003ci\u003eSecret Rendezvous\u003c\/i\u003e by Kobo Abe, received the 1980 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. In 2014, her translation of \u003ci\u003eA True Novel\u003c\/i\u003e by Minae Mizumura received the same award. Besides Shion Miura's \u003ci\u003eThe Great Passage\u003c\/i\u003e and two-volume Forest series, Carpenter's recent translations include Mizumura's \u003ci\u003eAn I-Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, Keiichiro Hirano's \u003ci\u003eAt the End of the Matinee\u003c\/i\u003e, and Tōru Haga's \u003ci\u003ePax Tokugawana: The Cultural Flowering of Japan, 1603-1853\u003c\/i\u003e. Her forthcoming translations include Masatsugu Ono's \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of the Wood\u003c\/i\u003e and Kiyoko Murata's \u003ci\u003eA Woman of Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e. Carpenter lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amazon Crossing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50682377699602,"sku":"9781542028882","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb272935-2f82-48bf-9299-5876ec275bcd.jpg?v=1733969509","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kamusari-tales-told-at-night-9781542028882","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}