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    The Fishmonger’s Daughter
    The Fishmonger’s Daughter
    The Fishmonger’s Daughter
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    The Fishmonger’s Daughter

    By Alex Shishin

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    Set in the maritime Japanese city of Akashi, “The Fishmonger’s Daughter” concerns a superficially westernized arts supply shopkeeper who lives in the vicinity of the famous Uonotana Fish Market. He is having a prolonged love affair with a rich and eccentric married woman from Osaka. After she breaks off their relationship, he finds himself drawn to the fish market’s Japanese authenticity and a fishmonger's daughter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Shishin
    Release dateNov 2, 2018
    ISBN9780463864173
    The Fishmonger’s Daughter
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    Alex Shishin

    Alex Shishin has published fiction, non-fiction and photography in Japan, North America, and Europe in print and online. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Shishin is a permanent resident of Japan. Shishin is the author “Nippon 2357:A Utopian Ecological Tale,” and five other ebooks published exclusively by Smashwords and available for free. He is co-author with Stephan F. Politzer of “Four Parallel Lives of Eight Notable Individuals,” also published by Smashwords. Shishin's short story "Mr. Eggplant Goes Home," first published in “Prairie Schooner” received an O. Henry Award Honorable Mention and was anthologized in “Student Body: Stories About Students and Professors” (University of Wisconsin Press). His short story "Shades," originally published in “Sunday Afternoon” (Kobe) was anthologized in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press) and reprinted by invitation in “The East” (Tokyo).  Shishin’s book “Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era” (a Russian-American memoir of a train odyssey through the Soviet Union and Poland) was published by iUniverse. It is available as a print-on-demand book and an ebook. Shishin has also published a collection of photographs entitled “Ordinary Strangeness” with Viovio in conjunction with his joint exhibition at the Twenty-first Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan. It is available from the publisher online. Alex Shishin holds degrees in English from the University of California, Berkeley (BA, Phi Beta Kappa) the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA) and the Union Institute and University (PhD).

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      The Fishmonger’s Daughter - Alex Shishin

      Copyright 2018 Alex Shishin

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This story is a work of fiction. Similarities to actual people, places (except landmarks) and events in this novel are entirely coincidental.

      THE FISHMONGER’S DAUGHTER

      Alex Shishin

      Before I inherited, as the oldest son, the Murakami family art supply business in Akashi City, I inherited a set of attitudes from my father. For most of his life, Father sold fish in the famous Akashi fish market. A successful businessman, he also knew how to play the role of fishmonger. He wore a bandana around his head and a blue apron over his simple cotton shirt and baggy trousers. He knew how to clap his hands and shout, "Irasshai! Fresh fish!" with just the right pitch so that the milling shoppers in the narrow and noisy arcade would come to him. He could also be disarming by

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