Night Train to the Stars av Kenji Miyazawa

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<p><b>Japanese fairy tales - </b><b>enchanting, enigmatic stories of </b><b>animals, human beings and</b><b> the great natural world</b><b>. </b><br><br>Dark 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.<br><br>These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan''s most beloved early twentieth-century writers.<br><br>WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID MITCHELL AND AN INTRODUCTION BY KAORI NAGAI<br><br><b>''Kenji Miyazawa fables are international-class'' David Mitchell</b><br><br><b>''F