Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/30/2018
ISBN: 9780811228275
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/27/2018
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2018 pg. 24