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Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories

Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories - Paperback

by Taeko Kono
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Taeko Kono, Lucy NorthPublish date:2018-10-30Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811228275ISBN-10:811228274UPC:9780811228275Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC8WR485NJ

Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan's top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange beauty, pinpricked with sadomasochistic and disquieting scenes.

In the title story, the protagonist loathes young girls, but compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so that she can watch them dress and undress. The impersonal gaze Taeko Kono turns on this behavior transfixes the reader with a fatal question: What are we hunting for? And why?

Multiplying perspectives and refracting light from the strangely facing mirrors of fantasy and reality, pain and pleasure, these ten stories present Kono at her very best.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811228275ISBN-10:811228274UPC:9780811228275Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC8WR485NJ
North, Lucy: - Lucy North is a Japanese translator and editor based in the southeast of England.Kono, Taeko: - Born in Tokyo, Taeko Kono (1926-2015) was "one of the most significant feminist writers of postwar Japan" (Japan Times).
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributor(s)

Taeko Kono, Lucy North

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Taeko Kono

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