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We, the Children of Cats
Author(s): Tomoyuki Hoshino (Author)
- Publisher: PM Press
- Publication Date: 13 Sept. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1604865911
- ISBN-13: 9781604865912
Book Description
We, The Children of Cats showcases a new collection of provocative early works by Tomoyuki Hoshino, winner of the 2011 Kenzaburo Oe Award in Literature. Drawing on sources as diverse as 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 incandescent, the stories in this anthology demonstrate Hoshino’s view of literature as ‘an art that wavers, like a heat shimmer’.
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…
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…
Editorial Reviews
Review
Finishing these stories and novellas is like stepping back from a vista where the world has briefly appeared in it’s truer or more original and realigned form, shot through with dynamic paradoxes and an unerring ambition to challenge, taking uncharted routes and reconfiguring truths that do indeed lodge themselves in the reader, unreservedly recommended, my thanks go to PM Press. —-Nihon Distractions
About the Author
Tomoyuki Hoshino was born in LA in 1965 and returned to Japan with his family before his third birthday. He spent the next 23 years living in Tokyo. After working as a journalist for the conservative Sankei newspaper, he left Japan to study abroad in Mexico. From 1996 to 2000, he tried his hand at writing subtitles for Spanish films. His debut novel The Last Gasp (1997) was awarded the Bungei Prize, and OreOre (2010) won the 2011 Kenzaburo Oe Award for Literature.
