San Antonio College Library

"In this debut collection, Mary Yukari Waters, a Japanese-American writer, opens a window onto a foreign culture as she reveals the universal humanity of her characters. These stories explore Japanese society caught between the long shadow of World War II and the rapid advance of Westernization. The women and children who inhabit these tales have lost husbands and fathers in the war and now face a world dramatically altered by Western influence."...

A collection of twelve tales includes stories about a waiter who reveals his shocking life of crime to his ex-wife, the disintegration of a marriage following a terrible tragedy, and a middle-aged accountant who ends a love affair.

This is a translation of the 95 medieval German folktale chronicling the adventures of the jester Till Eulenspiegel, based primarily on Johannes Grieninger's 1515 Middle High German version, with interpolations from earlier and later renderings.