2.5million copies sold in Japan, and made into an award-winning film, a literary collection by Jiro Asada with an introduction by Margaret Atwood, The Stationmaster is a masterpiece.

Jiro Asada's The Stationmaster is among the most cherished works by this very well-known Japanese writer, and it's a great pleasure to be able to introduce this version to English readers... Some of them-like the stationmaster of the title story-belong to a world that is traveling very fast and leaving them behind; their accomplishments are the kind nobody important recognizes or values; they fill positions that will soon be obsolete; they've spent a lifetime of hard work that has led to very little. What does the life of the old stationmaster, Otomatsu, add up to from the world's point of view? Or the life of the dying sex-trade worker in "Love Letter"? Hardly a whisper.
-from "Introduction" by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale, and a current Vice-President of PEN International.

The award-winning author revives a time when men lived like true men, proudly fulfilling their responsibilities. People still honored the dignities in life, and lived for those they cared about, in the spirit of samurai. The devotion of these characters to one another is quiet and reserved, not overtly thought of as love, but in a sense it is. So this is a collection of love stories in a samurai way, set in contemporary Japan.

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