Autorentext
Matsuda Aoko is the author of four collections of short stories and four essay collections. Her debut, Stackable, was nominated for Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013. English translations of her work have appeared in Granta and Monkey Business, and her novella The Girl Who Is Getting Married (tr Angus Turvill) was published by Strangers Press in 2016. Her short story The Woman Dies (tr Polly Barton) was nominated for Shirley Jackson Award in 2019. Matsuda has also translated Karen Russell and Amelia Gray into Japanese. She is based in Tokyo. Polly Barton is a Japanese-English translator and writer based in the UK. Her translations include 'Butter' by Asako Yuzuki, 'So We Look to the Sky' by Misumi Kubo, 'Spring Garden' by Tomoka Shibasaki, and 'There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job' by Kikuko Tsumura. Her translation of 'Mild Vertigo' by Mieko Kanai was awarded a 2023-2024 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize. She is the author of 'Fifty Sounds' and 'Porn: An Oral History', both published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Klappentext
Witty, inventive, and profound, Matsuda Aoko's collection of linked stories is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional Japanese ghost stories. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese women's lives.