Ebook {Epub PDF} Echo on the Bay by Masatsugu Ono

Masatsugu Ono is the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The Water-Covered Grave), which won the Asahi Award for New Writers, and Nigiyakana wan ni seowareta fune (Echo on the Bay), which won the Mishima Prize. A prolific translator from the French―including works by Èdouard Glissant and Marie NDiaye―Ono received the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s highest literary honor, in /5(8).  · “Melancholy, humorous, and haunting; Echo on the Bay is a vivid portrayal of community and the big and small ways history has the tendency to repeat itself.” —Caleb Masters, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC) “Echo on the Bay is an intricately folding story of the untold and the unknown, which unfolds in revelations, both delicate and abrupt. Ono unveils the beauty and horror of humanity .  · Ono Masatsugu’s “Echo on the Bay” is strange, unsettling and definitely weird, but in a brilliantly original and unique way. This isn’t the “quirkiness” of talking cats, second sight Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

Echo on the Bay — Ono, Masatsugu, — "All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new police chief plays audience for the locals, who routinely approach him with bottles of liquor and stories to tell. Ono Masatsugu's "Echo on the Bay" is strange, unsettling and definitely weird, but in a brilliantly original and unique way. This isn't the "quirkiness" of talking cats, second sight. Masatsugu Ono. Masatsugu Ono is the author of numerous novels, including two published in English translation: Lion Cross Point and Echo on the Bay (both translated from the Japanese by Angus Turvill and published by Two Lines Press). His shorter work has also appeared in various English-language publications including Monkey Business, the Paris Review Daily and Granta.

Masatsugu Ono is the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The Water-Covered Grave), which won the Asahi Award for New Writers, and Nigiyakana wan ni seowareta fune (Echo on the Bay), which won the Mishima Prize. A prolific translator from the French―including works by Èdouard Glissant and Marie NDiaye―Ono received the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s highest literary honor, in ECHO ON THE BAY. by Masatsugu Ono ; translated by Angus Turvill ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 9, Atmospheric tale, with shades of the procedural and the coming-of-age story, by Mishima Prize–winning novelist Ono. Cross García Márquez and Simenon and set the piece on the Sea of Japan, and you’ll have a feel for Ono’s latest, told through the point of view of a middle schooler who’s uprooted from the city by her unambitious father, newly appointed the police chief of a small fishing. “Melancholy, humorous, and haunting; Echo on the Bay is a vivid portrayal of community and the big and small ways history has the tendency to repeat itself.” —Caleb Masters, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC) “Echo on the Bay is an intricately folding story of the untold and the unknown, which unfolds in revelations, both delicate and abrupt. Ono unveils the beauty and horror of humanity through the people in a small fishing village, how they treat one another alongside how they handle.