Night Train to the Stars: Vintage Classics

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.

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.

These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan-s most beloved early twentieth-century writers.

WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID MITCHELL AND AN INTRODUCTION BY KAORI NAGAI