Hakone swiftly referred to the floor guide and said, This way, and took off without sparing a glance at the stalls she passed. Or: Weeping, I swung at her head with a club Id taken off a man Id kicked to the ground? Perhaps its greatest gifts are its aesthetic solutions, whichthough at most tangential to successful western narrativesoften feel like deep breathsconstructed benisons where a reader can get out from under the storm. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. I think?. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, Many unusual things happen in The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a new collection by the Japanese author Yukiko Motoya. On Exclusions by Noah Falck, Jim Johnstone Motoyas is the perfect book for the reader whos seen it allwho is tired of predicting endings and hankers for a surprise. August 2021 Micro-Reviews, Christina Pugh The stories collected in Yukiko Motoya . The tales in The Lonesome Bodybuilder boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion, all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens. Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Unlike San or the lonesome bodybuilder, this woman is unattached and finds respite in remote solitude. The other persons ideas, interests, andhabits would gradually take the place of my own. . Do you remember, on our honeymoon, how I chewed up allthe fruit for you so you could eat it?, Sure. Instead of responding, I looked down and nibbled a slice of pear. On A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, Nicholas Bredie When I thought about whether the thing that had started tomove on top of me was my husband or just something like him, Ifelt a terrible dread and kept my eyes firmly shut. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. New York, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2018. Is that the problem? I asked. Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves and the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentences are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders. Motoya won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary prize, for AN EXOTIC MARRIAGE, the novella contained in THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER; this book offers the exciting opportunity to introduce Motoya to a U.S. audience. The mass movement of a migrating flock of . In The Lonesome Bodybuilder, the pest is always a yawning disconnect between people. Motoya was born in snowy Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan but later set out for Tokyo, where she completed an acting course and worked as a voice actor for a spell before deciding to zero in on writing novels and plays. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014; and Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. I wanted to pretend I was asleep, but then he wentto switch on the light, so I reached out and caught his hand almostby reflex. . Each time I looked at my husband lying on the couch, I had the strange impression I was living with a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. Then you collect those, so you can bank money again. A day goes by, and the clerk, who stays all night, offers the woman every piece of clothing in the store, then buys her clothes from another boutique to try on. The World Owes You Nothing: A Review of Mine! Let the cat do it. At face value, the stories are fun and funny to read, but weightier questions lurk below the surface. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. The same goes for San, whose face melts into new patterns. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. . 209 pages. Her only companionship comes from a pack of mysterious dogs that, unbeknownst to her, terrorize the nearby village until there is no one left. She endures this at first but later partakes in it, finding herself pulled into her husbands orbithis daily consumption of variety shows and deep-fried food. They confront their stifled independence: velleities give way to keen yearnings, desires twist toward violence. One woman puts it to her husband directly: You can stop being husband shaped now! Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, . They may feel separated from others, but they also feel separated from themselves. This normalization gives the stories their irony and their sense of being just a bit off, like a lingering scent of formaldehyde. . What if thereends up being more of the bad? The unsettling stories in The Lonesome Bodybuilder are deeply preoccupied with the yawning disconnect between people. The story ends on a note of limitlessness: Anything at all could turn out to be something beyond my wildest dreams.. Youve banked some money., Sure enough, there was a number at the lower-right-hand corner of the screen. Her quickly buried feelings recall Sans mutating features. Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, . Okay. I turned on my heel and went back into the kitchen. San isnt the only woman in Motoyas stories who feels neglected and vaguely undefined. Mud Stuck to our Shoes: On The Insistence of Harm by Fernando Valverde, Edward Derby But Id like us to stay as separate people for a little longer., I mean, getting married, that means swallowing everything about the other person, the good things and the bad. Yukiko Motoya so commented on her career and creative process during an interview for Granta. personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to The husband-like thingpicked up the cocktail stick and popped a pear segment into themouth, which was positioned perilously close to his jawline. But Motoya belongs more to modern oddness than to a fabulist tradition. In spite ofin fact, because ofher affection for the odd and comic, Motoyas stories grant sobering insights into the compromises of love and marriage, the fraught pursuit of art and desire, and the dangers of becoming stuck in the wrong version of your life. Although the stories are often funny, theyre not sarcastic or ironic, and Motoyas not really kidding. A woman trains as a bodybuilder, adding massive ropes of muscle to her back and shoulders, tripling the width of her neckand her husband doesnt notice. Unearthing Memory and Reclaiming the Feminine in Shanta Lee Ganders GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Chris Via Ad Choices. Eine Hausfrau wird zur Bodybuilderin, aber ihrem arbeitsschtigen Ehemann fallen die neuen English translation copyright 2018 by Asa Yoneda. They treat the importance of others inner lives as a given. Longenbachs Forever, Noah Warren Maybe thats why its so easy being with you. She finds a trainer, and a good deal at a nearby fitness club (a rather unlikely "100 Free Sessions Until You See the Results You Want ! I was still thinking about the ex-wife following the refrigerator conversation. There are two snakes, and they each start cannibalizing the other ones tail. Empire Gold : A Review of Claire Meuschkes UPEND, John Wall Barger Motoya Yukiko, general information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. Left to their own devices, these characters may have been content with the status quo, but the universe Motoya builds taunts them with their secret motivations until theyre forced to confront them publicly. No one in Yukiko Motoyas new story collection, The Lonesome Bodybuilder, appears capable of seeing herself in the mirror. The writing itself is to be admired. Hakone quenched her thirst with cold roasted green tea from the vending machine. Youre talking about him a lot lately., Thats exactly what I told Uwano. Id brought her to the store, promising to buy her something new to wear, or anything else she wanted, but Hakone had headed straight for the escalator down to the basement food hall and asked for a bento. The protagonist in the title story grows fond of combat sports and wonders why this didnt occur much earlier. She commits to it, lifting regularly and consuming protein powder, yet while others notice her transformation, her husband does not. Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. Number of pages: 224. -, "Like a bouquet of exotic flowers, her stories are varied and full of surprise, starting out with mundane situations and then turning strange in a way that feels uniquely Japanese. Exploring the struggle against alienation isnt new ground to tread in literature. The collections longest story, An Exotic Marriage, is more of a novella, and explores physical transformation as a metaphor for the shifting of identities in a relationship. How to Fix Transistor Radios and Printed Circuits, DR. D.T.R.S BIRDS ARENT REAL CURED MY PARAFEARMONIA: A TESTIMONIAL, ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis, Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer, Sayantani Dasguptas Misbehaving Women an interview byJ aya Wagle, Not Tonight: A Review of Kelly McClures Something Is Always Happening Somewhere, STANDING UNDER THE TREE: A REVIEW OF LEAVE SOCIETY BY TAO LIN, POETS NOT TALKING ABOUT POETRY: MICHAEL SIKKEMA. Her varied work has resulted in numerous accolades, and, most recently, the release of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, the first book-length English translation of her fiction. I always do that, she admonishes herself. by He pulled the strip of squid from his mouth, and said, Itsbecause youre a housewife, San. The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya (2018). Her first story, ""Eriko to zettai,"" appeared in the literary magazine Gunzo in 2002. In "An Exotic Marriage," the collection's centerpiece, the narrator, Sen, marries a man who refuses to engage with the world. Didnt you say his ex-wife wasreally good-looking?, Really good-looking. I followed, but never having been very good at walking throughcrowds, I kept barging into peoples shoulders, and by the time I caught up, she had already joined the line for the steak bento. Check if your Hey, give itback if youre not even going to play. My husband took the iPadfrom my hand and sank his head back to the game. . By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of [the story] "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you' Financial Times 'Delightful . Motoyas book beguiles with its reversals: the bodybuilders husband may be unobservant to the point of eeriness, but, as it turns out, she is the shape-shifter, the trickster. Near But Not Touching: On The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies, Tracy Zeman He is villainous without even the dignity of intention. The pears?. I remembered that once, many years ago, Id asked Santa Claus for a present: to wake up and have the whole world to myself, she recalls as she wanders the ghost town. and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, Patrick Davis By now, I was like the ghost of a snakethat had already been eaten up by many other snakes, and Id lostmy own body long before getting swallowed up by my husband. [5] It became the title story of a 2003 collection published by Kodansha. Infinite Entanglements in Allison Cobbs Plastic: An Autobiography, Elizabeth Bailey A draft blows through the talesloneliness, the most spectral emotion. Is a Woman Ever Going to Win the White House? () The writing itself is to be admired." The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Her husbands jealousy is another form of misperception. In the title story, a husband watches a boxing match and asks his wife what she thinks of his body. Like that actress from the movies., How did he split up with a person like that and end up marrying you?. Motoya's stories tend to include a few odd details and features -- often contrasting with the seeming normality of the narration, a mix of the absurd and matter-of-fact mundane. Weight: 196 g. Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 26 mm. The course of that career certainly indicates a restless curiosity. Translated by Asa Yoneda. Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder is available from Soft Skull Press. ISBN: 9781472154354. [9] She was nominated a third time for her 2011 novel Nurui doku (Warm Poison), about a woman who has a relationship with a pathological liar claiming to be a former high school classmate. The husband-like thingpicked up the cocktail stick and popped a pear segment into themouth, which was positioned perilously close to his jawline. These stories, tinged with magical elements, see characters toeing the line between independence and isolation: A teardrop of blood or a shape-shifting rock can unmask deep-seated realities that theyre tempted to ignore in favor of unfulfilling marriages and quotidian chores. Sign up for our mailing list to get the latest updates on happenings at Maudlin House, and product discounts! Other extraordinary examples from the collection: A girlfriend challenges her boyfriend to a duel and turns into a miniskirt-wearing siren; a husband made of straw harps on his wife to take better care of their BMW. She won the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; the Mishima Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014; and Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. Excitement becomes execution. "An Exotic Marriage," a Kafkaesque depiction that shows how even those closest to us can wind up completely alien in the end, a disturbing sentiment that is also reflected in the final story, "The Straw Husband." There is a bit of twisted, violent dystopia in "Paprika Jiro" and anime-flavored . I heard a tinkling sound like coins dropping into a piggy bank, which Id been hearing constantly all evening. Motoyas emphases include tedious relationships, workplace gender dynamics, and the soporific entertainments and culinary distractions of our modern age. Her eyes were focused on the booths cloud-glass partition, but her mouth was still chewing away steadily at the steak. I wasnt sure that I wanted to. The collection is more hits than misses, but a few stories, like Paprika Jiro and Typhoon, skew too quirky and become trivial, though theyre buoyant with fancy. One night, after dinner, I was surprised to notice my husband engrossedin his iPad rather than the variety show playing on the TV. The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet. . But Motoya's unique vision is still worth experiencing, and Yoneda's translation provides a clear and beautiful . "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. The other stories are trim and propulsive, itching to move forward, using their surreal elements to interrogate assumptions about intimacy and the complacency of partnership. Theres a Jungian undercurrent in Motoyas writing, which seems to prize self-actualization as a way to mendor endtroubled relationships. Do you know the story of the snake ball? We have to accept that were responsible for the physical effects theyre experiencing! a man yells, as the narrators girlfriends lips produce their own lipstick; the narrator tearfully euthanizes her. The narrator is surprised, but not at the transformationshe just never knew he wanted that. (That may be an additional appeal of the gym: in a precarious world, a weight lifter looks exactly like what she is.) The stories are funny and creepy; they have a campfire vibe, a brush of the moonless night. When he notices that the fight has attracted her attention, he accuses her of lusting after the boxers and their muscled bodies. The fact that I couldnt stop, even if I tried, was proof that it wasnt actually a matter of anything as benign as acting or pretending.. 209 pages. These men are usually husbands, as in the eponymous story that opens the collection, in which the protagonist discovers bodybuilding, becomes enamored with it to the point of obsession, and rapidly transforms both her body and her personality. On Asylum by Jill Bialosky, Jehanne Dubrow You should be careful, her neighbor tells her. Where does Motoya find lines like When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was? Between me and Senta, I mightend up swallowing him all in one big gulp.. () By the first few sentences of, "Like soap bubbles, several of these stories catch your eye, but the instant they are gone you forget about them. His face was barely maintaining a form that could even berecognized as human. Soft Skull Press. Eventually, the clerk has no option except to haul the fitting room out of the store. I was folding laundry on the living room floor. The Women makes the battle of the sexes literal, too, as women turn into garish embodiments of male desirebut stronger and deadlier. The narrator of An Exotic Marriage notices that she and her husband are beginning to look alike, but her husbands investment in game shows is the greater threat to her happiness and autonomy. In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. The title story is one of her best: "Fighters are so . Touch one and see, he said, so I tried pressing on a browndisc with my finger. In How to Burden the Girl, a thirty-four-year-old recluse spies on the younger woman who has moved in next door. . He seemed not to realize that anything was amiss, and simplylooked at me with his terrifyingly wide-set eyes, and said, Are they all gone?. The Kenyon Review is supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. I sat down on the couch and looked at the iPad screen. . Story Comes From Place: On Site Fidelity by Claire Boyles, Jasmine V. Bailey Men and women enter into romances with shape-shifters. Theyhad a feature on department store deli eats, and the Spicy FilletSteak Summer Set Bento just looked so delicious, she said, flattening her plump eyelids in anticipation. Id brought her to the store, promising to buy her something new to wear, or anything else she wanted, but Hakone had headed straight for the escalator down to the basement food hall and asked for a bento. Snake ball! I didnt say what I was thinking, but he must have sensed it. The reader wonders: Am I the strange one? This criticism becomes pointed when juxtaposed with the final story in the collection, The Straw Husband, about a newlywed woman named Tomoko who is unfailingly devoted to her husband, a man made of straw. [17] The prize-winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year by Kodansha. On Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young, Kyle Wang Wilson Josephson is a young sapling spreading his roots in southern Minnesota. 224 pp. the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. Hearing Hakonessnake-ball story, I finally felt that something that had beencloudy to me had become clear. This is abundantly illustrated in An Exotic Marriage, a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husbands identity is blending with her own. The weird garbled messages?, No, but you can just tell these things sometimes., Huh. By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of [the story] "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you' Financial Times 'Delightful . Asa Yoneda. By emphasizing a characteristic nimbleness in Japanese storytelling, Mockett draws attention to these often-invisible constructs; she shows, using examples from a number of childrens stories, the ways in which the rigid archetypes that we learn to recognize as we grow upexpectations of character or plot; the solid demarcations of good or evilcan be blurred into something more delightfully nebulous than the western canon prepares us for. (He will no doubt be prepared to be swung as hard as it takes to protect your honor.) The husbands are oppressively thoughtless, moody, domineering. But I guess that cant be right. [15], In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her story Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together. I wasexpecting some cutting-edge visual effects, but what I saw wasan image representing what looked like oceans and continents,drawn in simple lines like in old Nintendo games. In The Women, a citys female population contracts a virus that turns them into homicidal hotties. By then I was actively feeding my bodyto him to be devoured. In so many of these stories, possibilities stretch, and the abandonment of realism feels like having your eyes wrenched open. Copyright 2018 by Yukiko Motoya. His work has been published in Tin House Online, Nashville Review, Harvard Review, and Full Stop. Oh, those, my husband said, turning his shoulders towardme. Characters change . I saw it on the local news the other day. The narrator, reasoning that she must be lonely, what with her entire family having been killed by an evil gang, asks her out, only to find that his new girlfriend is psychotic and in love with her dad. Previously, her translated stories have appeared in GRANTA and CATAPULT . 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