Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories Kono TaekoPaperback
Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories Kono TaekoPaperback Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. The impersonal gaze Taeko Kono turns on this behavior transfixes the…
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Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories Kono TaekoPaperback
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. The impersonal gaze Taeko Kono turns on this behavior transfixes the reader with a fatal question: What are we hunting for? 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.
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
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