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We, the children of cats : stories and novellas / by Tomoyuki Hoshino ; edited and translated by Brian Bergstrom ; with an additional translation by Lucy Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoshino, Tomoyuki.
- Series:
- Found in Translation
- Found in translation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, Calif. : PM Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology are drawn from sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Japanese folklore, and yet they ultimately reside in a slyly subversive literary world that is all their own. Blending an uncompromising ethical vision with exuberant, free-wheeling imagery and bracing formal experimentation, the five short stories and three novellas included in We, the Children of Cats show the full range and force of Hoshino's imagination. The stories include a man and woman who find their genders and sexua
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface To All of You Reading This in English; Stories; Paper Woman (2000); The No Fathers Club (2006); Chino (2000); We, the Children of Cats (2001); Air (2006); Novellas; Sand Planet (2002); Treason Diary (1998); A Milonga for the Melted Moon (1999); Afterword The Politics of Impossible Transformation; Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60486-758-2
- OCLC:
- 797917665
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