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A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories 

Coming soon in February 2025

“Shibasaki makes us think about the way stories are told—what we expect, and what we think we know.”
— Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

“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

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.

TOMOKA SHIBASAKI is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her works have been adapted into films and received numerous awards, including the Akutagawa Prize in 2014.

POLLY BARTON is a literary translator based in the UK and the author of Fifty Sounds, a personal dictionary of the Japanese language.