Night Train to the Stars

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa`s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as `The Ungrateful Rat` where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap. There are morality tales such as `The Restaurant of Many Orders`, where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa`s best-known `Night Train to the Stars`, where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens. These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan`s most beloved early twentieth-century writers.