Souvenir of Japan (2026)

Angela Carter presents five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan. An Englishwoman reflects on her affair with a younger Japanese man, a rejected lover seeks intimacy in another chance encounter, and a boy discovers a mirror world while walking through the woods. In these mesmerising, fantastical tales, Carter explores what it means to arrive in a world different from ones own and to be profoundly, sometimes terrifyingly, transformed in the process. The book is in English.