We, the Children of Cats

Name: We, the Children of Cats
ISBN: 9781604865912

Tomoyuki Hoshino

320 pages · about 5 hours
First published 2012
4 editions

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1 About this book

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.

Short stories

2 About Tomoyuki Hoshino

Born 1965

Tomoyuki Hoshino (星野智幸, Hoshino Tomoyuki; born July 13, 1965) is a Japanese writer. He has won the Bungei Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Ōe Kenzaburō Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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