After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, critically acclaimed writer Hideo Furukawa experienced an unsettling ¡°imagination meltdown.¡±

¡°Novelists are artists, and usually imagination comes between them and reality,¡± Fukushima-born Furukawa says. ¡°But when reality becomes something far beyond our imagination, we are exposed, rendered naked and reality moves closer to art. We must then confront reality directly.¡±

Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure, by Hideo Furukawa, Translated by Doug Slaymaker and Akiko Takenaka.160 pagesColumbia University Press, Fiction.