| Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories Contributor(s): Kono, Taeko (Author), North, Lucy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811228274 ISBN-13: 9780811228275 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: 895.635 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kono, Taeko: - Born in Tokyo, Taeko Kono (1926-2015) was "one of the most significant feminist writers of postwar Japan" (Japan Times).North, Lucy: - Lucy North is a Japanese translator and editor based in the southeast of England. |
