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"These wonderful stories make you laugh and cry, but mostly they astonish." --Helen Mitsios, editor, New Japanese Voices
"I see [in Hoshino] an ability to truly think through fiction that recalls Kobo Abe. This superlative ability makes even the most fantastical details and developments read as perfectly natural." --Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning author, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids and Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
"Wonderfully translated, selected, and presented, this collection of works will be required reading." --Rebecca Copeland, author, Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan
"The loosely linked stories collected in We, the Children of Cats home in on everyday events of millennial Japan only to slowly pan out onto alternate realities--voyages, crimes of passion, cultural histories of treason, sudden quarrels, and equally sudden truces. These stories explore the longing to be somewhere, sometime, or even someone else so strongly that reality itself is, before you know it, transfigured." --Anne McKnight, author, Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity
"Every story and novella in this collection startles, confuses, yet finally energizes the attentive reader. The editor and translators are to be congratulated on presenting us with such an impressive sample of this brilliant contemporary writer." --Japan Times (January 2013)
"Nearly every character in Hoshino's collection of short stories and novellas yearns to escape the boundaries of their gender, national identity, or, in many cases, their own flesh. Hoshino is an avowed lover of magical realism, and the transformative, dream-like aspects of that genre wield a heavy influence on this work." --Publishers Weekly (November 19, 2012)
"We, the Children of Cats is an interesting collection, and certainly a good introduction to an interesting writer." --www.complete-review.com
"Power surges through each fantasia of failed transformation in this remarkable collection." --Michael A. Morrison, World Literature Today
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 sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts; a man who travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary purpose only to find much more than he bargained for; a journalist who investigates a poisoning at an elementary school and gets lost in an underworld of buried crimes, secret societies, and haunted forests; and two young killers, exiled from Japan, who find a new beginning as resistance fighters in Peru. An afterword by translator and editor Brian Bergstrom and a new preface by Hoshino himself is also included.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air? A man travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary purpose and finds much more than he bargains for? A journalist investigates a poisoning at an elementary school and gets lost in an underworld of buried crimes, secret societies, and haunted forests? Two young killers, exiled from Japan, find a new beginning as resistance fighters in Peru? These are but a few of the stories told in We, the Children of Cats, a new collection of provocative early works by Tomoyuki Hoshino, winner of the 2011 Kenzaburo Oe Award in Literature and author of the powerhouse novel Lonely Hearts Killer (PM Press, 2009). Drawing on sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, Kenji Nakagami and traditional Japanese folklore, Hoshino creates a challenging, slyly subversive literary world all his own. By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology demonstrate Hoshino?s view of literature as ?an art that wavers, like a heat shimmer, between joy at the prospect of becoming something else and despair at knowing that such a transformation is ultimately impossible?a novel?s words trace the pattern of scars left by the struggle between these two feelings.? Blending an uncompromising ethical vision with exuberant, freewheeling 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 anthology also includes an afterword by translator and editor Brian Bergstrom and a new preface by Hoshino himself. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SKU1009835
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