The Coat That Covers Him

and Other Stories

by Michael Hoffman


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 12/3/2004

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 644
ISBN : 9781418494407

About the Book

Michael Hoffman’s characters are, willy-nilly, participants in plots that don’t add up. Some emerge stronger; others, shadows of their former selves. The six stories and one novel that make up this collection are set, wholly or primarily, in Japan, land of the artful mask.  Meet the man who loses his key and sets in motion a chain of events whose incomprehensibility he will never understand; a small girl who accosts a fugitive murderer (is he really a murderer?) for sex, only to be admonished to go back to school; a murdered boy who is resurrected (is he really?) and wreaks his mad revenge; and, finally, Sidney Levin, whose reunion twenty years later with a lost Japanese girlfriend ends in a hopeless entanglement with her growing daughter.


About the Author

MICHAEL HOFFMAN was born in Montreal, Canada, and has lived in Japan since 1982. He is the author of Withdrawal (2003) and The Empty Cafe (2001), and co-author of Tokyo Confidential (2001), a collection of short pieces on life in Japan. His short fiction has appeared in various North American and Japanese magazines. As a freelance journalist he is a regular contributor of essays, book reviews and translations to Japan’s English-language media.