Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories introduces to American readers a startlingly original voice. Kono Taeko has won all of Japan's major literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri).
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories introduces to American readers a startlingly original voice. Kono Taeko has won all of Japan's major literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri). Her disquieting stories, with their strange beauty and undercurrent of sadomasochism, bring to mind Tanizaki, but in a new vein. Subtly ruthless, they lift the latch on complacent views of womanhood. In the title story, the protagonist loathes young girls, but she compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so that she can watch them struggle to dress and…
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