Toddler Hunting and Other Stories (Paperback)

Taeko Kono

ISBN 10: 1474619207 / ISBN 13: 9781474619202

Editore: Orion Publishing Co, London, 2021

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Paperback. An immeasurably influential female voice in post-war Japanese literature, Kono writes with a strange and disorienting beauty: her tales are marked by disquieting scenes, her characters all teetering on the brink of self-destruction. In the famous title story, the protagonist loathes young girls but compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so that she can watch them dress and undress. Taeko Kono's detached gaze at these events is transfixing: What are we hunting for? And why? Kono rarely gives the reader straightforward answers, rather reflecting, subverting and examining their expectations, both of what women are capable of, and of the narrative form itself. A captivating collection of pitch-black tales from one of the most important Japanese writers of the second half of the twentieth century - 'shocking, ominous, and subversive' The Paris Review Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Toddler Hunting and Other Stories (Paperback)
• Editore: Orion Publishing Co, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474619207
• ISBN 13: 9781474619202
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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A captivating collection of pitch-black tales from one of the most important Japanese writers of the second half of the twentieth century - 'shocking, ominous, and subversive' The Paris Review

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Taeko Kono (1926 -2015) is one of the most important Japanese writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Oe Kenzaburo, Japan's Nobel Laureate, described her as the most "lucidly intelligent" woman writers writing in Japan, and the US critic and academic Masao Miyoshi identified her as among the most "critically alert and historically intelligent." US critic and academic Davinder Bhowmik assesses her as "...one of the truly original voices of the twentieth century, beyond questions of gender or even nationality."