A Souvenir of Japan - Five stories of desire and discovery from weird fiction's pionneering author of The Bloody Chamber.

Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela Carter

An Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man. A spurned lover seeks intimacy in another chance encounter. A boy stumbles upon a mirror world while walking in the woods. In five mesmerising, fantastical tales of 1970s Japan, Angela Carter explores what it means to arrive in a world different from one’s own, and to transform profoundly – sometimes terrifyingly – in the process.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days