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The Lonesome Bodybuilder Stories Yukiko Motoya Asa Yoneda Books

Wonderful collection of surreal feminist stories. I definitely need to reread these. Motoya's stories explore marriage, gender and power, and domestic life, allowing the dreamy and nightmarish to unfold while maintaining a perfectly quotidian tone.


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The Lonesome Bodybuilder Stories Yukiko Motoya Asa Yoneda Books Reviews

This is a beautiful collection of short stories that speak directly to my heart and soul. I highly recommend. 4.5 stars
I wanted to read a new novel from Japan just for a change of pace. It was good but, I'm not sure I understood it. But, then again, I had no idea what to expect.
The stories are at times bizarre, but in such a good way!
Amateur effort at best. Reads like the stories were written in an afternoon. Little in the way of art or substance. While dreamy for sure, comparing to Murakami is inappropriate. Even the title story, which starts off well, ends up flat.
Great book. It’s a book of short stories with a lot of feminist metaphors. Interesting read. I’m glad I purchased and read it. Very interesting.
I’ve caught a bit of Motoya’s work in a few English-language literary journals and was thrilled to see she had an entire story collection put out by the venerable Soft Skull Press. These stories are like little else I’ve read and take you to strange places with surprisingly realistic characters inhabiting the pages. I can’t recommend The Lonesome Bodybuilder enough. It’s one of the freshest takes in fiction I’ve come across in ages.
It took me a very long time to get through this collection of short stories. I found myself reading and nodding my head and saying "Uh huh...ok...uh huh...right...huh...what?" The stories were ridiculous. There was no point to any of them with the possible exception of "An Exotic Marriage" which won the Akutagawa Prize for best Japanese literature in 2016. Must've been a slow year for Japanese literature. The only redeeming quality on that story is that for 90% of the narrative, the characters are actually relatable, with some direction and some character development (it's also the longest story in the collection). I still had to stop and begin re-reading it 3 times before I forced myself to finish it. The other stories are entirely forgettable. Reading them is like listening to someone describe a dream that makes literally no sense - it's boring and pointless. This collection can't hold a candle to those of other Japanese short story authors like Yoko Ogawa and Ryu Murakami and Sayaka Murata or even Banana Yoshimoto or Murakami. Very disappointed.
Wonderful collection of surreal feminist stories. I definitely need to reread these. Motoya's stories explore marriage, gender and power, and domestic life, allowing the dreamy and nightmarish to unfold while maintaining a perfectly quotidian tone.