A Hundred Years and a Day

34 Stories

By: Tomoka Shibasaki, Polly Barton (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 July 2025

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184 Pages

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20.3 x 12.7 x 2.54

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This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level.

In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, alienated world, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet the women who share a house after the outbreak of war before going their separate ways once it is over; the man who lives in a succession of rooftop apartments; the diverging lives of two brothers who are raised as latch-key kids by factory workers; the old ramen restaurant that endures despite the demolition of all surrounding buildings; people who watch a new type of spaceship lift off from a pier that once belonged to an island resort; and more.

These 34 tales from all over the planet have the compulsive power of news reports, narrated in a crisp yet allegorical style.

Industry Reviews

Japanese reviews of A Hundred Years and a Day:

"This collection offers a series of those startling moments when the lives of some distant, unknown someone become, fleetingly, your own."
-Sachiko Kishimoto, author and translator

"Behold as time and space are warped through the power of words. This is a feat only literature can achieve."
-Masafumi Gotoh, musician, Asian Kung-Fu Generation

Praise for Spring Garden

"Like a good meditation: quiet, surprising and deeply satisfying."
-New York Times Book Review

"Atmospheric, meditative story of memory and loss in a gentrifying Tokyo neighborhood . . . An elegant story that is in many ways more reminiscent of Mishima and Akutagawa than many contemporary Japanese writers."
-Kirkus Reviews

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