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Toddler-hunting and other stories / Taeko Kono ; translated by Lucy North, with an additional translation by Lucy Lower.
Van Pelt Library PL855.O44 A613 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kōno, Taeko, 1926-2015, author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1424.
- A New Directions paperbook ; 1424
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Kōno, Taeko, 1926-2015--Translations into English.
- Kōno, Taeko, 1926-2015.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 2018.
- Summary:
- Ten tales whose protagonists are modern Japanese women in today's urban setting, usually sexually unsatisfied and with a penchant for the sado-masochistic.
- Contents:
- Night journey (Yoru o yuku, 1963)
- Full tide (Michi-shio, 1964)
- Toddler-hunting (Yoji-gari, 1961)
- Snow (Yuki, 1962)
- Theater (Gekijo, 1962)
- Crabs (Kani, 1963)
- Ants swarm (Ari takaru, 1964)
- Final moments (Saigo no toki, 1966)
- Conjurer (Majutsushi, 1967)
- Bone meat (Hone no niku, 1969).
- ISBN:
- 0811228274
- 9780811228275
- OCLC:
- 1023547266
- Publisher Number:
- 99978863816
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