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Title: Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
Author: ROWE SIMON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/01/2017
Imprint: ATLAS JONES
Price: $19.95
Publishing status: Active
Some of the tales told within Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere: A recovering alcoholic mail pilot crashes his plane in the desert with a bottle of gin on board – The Finke River Mail (Australia) A retired taxi driver takes a job driving call girls to pay his debts and receives an unexpected gift from a mysterious passenger – Good Night Papa (Japan) A snobbish widow must enlist the help of local cannery workers when an oversize family heirloom arrives by ship from New Zealand – Baby Grand (Fiji) A kung fu master finds a way to channel the creative talent of a recalcitrant student – The Girl Who Made The Kung Fu Master Cry (China) A fugitive seeking redemption realises his fate rests in the hands of a novice Buddhist monk – The Pilgrim (Japan) When an enormous python terrorises a beach resort in Bali, only one man has the ability and business acumen to turn the problem into a tasty success – Tuna Steak (Indonesia) A restaurant waitress uses her wit to have her husband released from prison when her beach resort town is overrun by a tide of seaweed – Weed (Mexico) Two rival gangs with plans to demolish an old neighborhood are brought to their knees by a barbershop full of ninja – The Foonabiki Barbers (Japan)
ISBN: 9780646961958
Pages: 192