{"product_id":"night-train-to-the-stars-kenji-miyazawa-1","title":"Night Train to the Stars - Kenji Miyazawa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJapanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap\/ There are morality tales such as 'The Restaurant of Many Orders', where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa's best-known 'Night Train to the Stars', where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID MITCHELL AND AN INTRODUCTION BY KAORI NAGAI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Kenji Miyazawa fables are international-class' David Mitchell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'For readers who relish the disturbing material of fairy tale, the specificity and surprise of tanka , collisions of the everyday with the supernatural and glimpses of Japan right on the brink of industrialization, Kenji Miyazawa's masterly stories will be a delight' New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' Few works have given me so much pleasure (and hard work) as the tales of Miyazawa Kenji [...] more genuine originality, and a more universal appeal, than almost anything else I have done.' John Bester, translator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eros \u0026 Anthos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790940205384,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/6956\/7560\/files\/60376806_dc2c920b-ce80-45c8-b59e-bde0dbc3e10d.jpg?v=1774699482","url":"https:\/\/erosanthos.com\/products\/night-train-to-the-stars-kenji-miyazawa-1","provider":"Eros \u0026 Anthos","version":"1.0","type":"link"}