Lit in Translation

The Bear and the Paving Stone

熊の敷石 · Kuma no shikiishi

Toshiyuki Horie (堀江敏幸, born 1964)

Translated by Geraint Howells

English editions

In English

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On a stay in France, a Japanese man goes to see Yan, a friend from years ago, in a rural town, and encounters the Jewish past bound up with Yan's family, along with Yan's landlady and her small son, who is blind.

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About the book

Form
Novella
Length
165 pages in the original
Set in
France
First published
2000 by Kodansha
Author's age
36 when first published
ISBN

9784062106351 (original)

9781782274377 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)

9781805331421 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)