The Crimson Thread of Abandon is a collection of short fiction by Shūji Terayama, translated into English by Elizabeth L. Armstrong and published by the University of Hawai'i Press in 2013. The book contains a total of 20 stories. The stories in the first half of the book originate from the collection Stories Sewn Up with a Red Thread.
Robert Anthony Siegel wrote in Three Percent that the translation had a "graceful" approach to wordplay and puns, and that the translator did her task "with sensitivity and skill".
Stories
"Ribbon of the Sea" "Bird in a Bottle" "Yesterday" "Memory Shot" "Gotta Dance" "The Eraser" "The Elusive Milena" "Remy's Quantum Realities" "One-Centimeter Journey" "Five Stories of Hide-and-Seek" "Alice in Shadowland" "Alice in Bookland" "Que Sera Sera" "24,000 Kisses" "The Thief's Tango" "Joker Joe" "Flame" "Hide-and-Not-Go-Seek" "Lena's Death" "Fallen Angel"
References
External links
"The Crimson Thread of Abandon Stories." University of Hawai'i Press.