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The Woman Dies
The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda
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Feminist tales from Japan that blend humour, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are[Bokinfo].
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There are over 50 "stories" in this 174-page book, so no surprise that they are very short, some being only one line. Naturally, then, most of the ideas are conceptual: you get the gist and fill in the blanks yourself. Matsuda gets this to work more often than not, and her surreal feminist commentaries on Japanese (and global) culture mostly hit home, but I think I'd have preferred some editing to either remove or expand the ones that don't. 3.5⭐

BarbaraBB Sounds interesting 1w
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"The android whose name was Boy set out on an adventure."

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Mirazzles I‘ve recently come across this one… how are you liking it thus far? 2w
Bookwomble @Mirazzles Well, I've overcommitted myself on Christmas books! so I've only read the first story, but that was good and I'm looking forward to getting properly into it once I've completed at least one other book! 2w
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