Boyd Tonkin

Luminous fables: Night Train to the Stars, by Kenji Miyazawa, reviewed

A downcast cellist discovers that his music cures sick mice and rabbits in one of many tales featuring talking animals in eerie, folkloric landscapes

A still from a Japanese film adaptation of one of Kenji Miyazawa’s tales featuring anthropomorphic cats. [Alamy]
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  • Night Train to the Stars

    Kenji Miyazawa, translated by John Bester

    Vintage Classics, pp. 256, £14

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