Author: Carter, Angela
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 2 July 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Brief Encounters' series.
Paperback | 112 pages
129 x 197 x 10 | 96g
Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela CarterAn 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