The Restaurant of Many Orders

By Kenji Miyazawa

This is perhaps the most famous of Kenji's short stories and one of his personal favorites, as it was the title story of his one and only self-published collection of short stories. Two hunters go on a hunting trip in the country and end up completely lost. Luckily they come across what appears to be an extremely popular restaurant...but everything is not as it seems.

Kenji Miyazawa is one of Japan’s best known and well-loved writers and poets. He was born in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1896. Although the eldest son of a wealthy pawnbroker and landowner, Kenji was a deeply spiritual person who led a frugal life, and when he wasn’t writing, volunteered a great deal of his time teaching farmers how to improve their crop yields, or organizing concerts for classical music in his local village. He was a prolific writer who completed hundreds of works, but only a small collection of those were published while he was still alive, his reputation as one of Japan’s greatest storytellers only coming after his death in 1933, aged 37.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Little J Books
• Release date: Nov 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310962042

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The Restaurant of Many Orders

by Kenji Miyazawa

Published by Little J Books at Smashwords

Copyright Paul Quirk 2013

Translated from - Chuumon no ooi ryoriten by Kenji Miyazawa

Cover image: The Church in Auvers by Vincent Van Gogh

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Features the following stories by Miyazawa:The Bears of Mt. NametokoThe Spider, The Slug, and The RacoonThe Restaurant of Many OrdersThe Ungrateful RatThe Nighthawk StarTokkobe TorakoThe Man of the HillsThe Police Chief