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Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories
Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories | Taeko Kono
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An unforgettable collection of stories from “the most carnally direct and the most lucidly intelligent woman writing in Japan” (Kenzaburo Oe) Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange beauty, pinpricked with sadomasochistic and disquieting scenes. In the title story, the protagonist loathes young girls, but compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so that she can watch them dress and undress. The impersonal gaze Taeko Kono turns on this behavior transfixes the reader with a fatal question: What are we hunting for? And why? Multiplying perspectives and refracting light from the strangely facing mirrors of fantasy and reality, pain and pleasure, these ten stories present Kono at her very best.
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Lexica10
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The snow placed its mark on her. The only existence she could have was like the snow‘s, forever in danger of melting away.

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Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories | Taeko Kono, Lucy North
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I had a feeling a reading slump would be coming on because I‘ve been reading even more than usual and reading great books. This book is awesome but I‘ve hardly read in the past week. It‘s frustrating 😕

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Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories | Taeko Kono, Lucy North
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This one is really good and more than a little uncomfortable so far.

Also, I loved Rosemary‘s Baby. It seems like the movie was pretty true to the book, but it‘s been years since I‘ve seen the movie.