They can be summarized as bizarre, witty, surreal and somewhat absurd. The other stories of the compilation are different in quality and length. It is obvious, that she struggles with the concept of marriage and her odd husband, who is going through a metamorphosis throughout the story with a surprising end. Imagine two snakes eating each other from the tail up to their heads until they form a ball. The central theme is about daily life from the perspective of a wife, who compares her relationship with her husband with a so-called snake ball. The longest story, about half of the book, is called ‘An Exotic Marriage’ which won the 154th Akutagawa Prize in 2016. It consists of ten, mainly weird surreal short stories. ‘The Lonesome Bodybuilder’ is a short story collection written by the female Japanese author Motoya Yukiko 本谷 有希子 (born 1979).
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