Weasels in the attic
Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983-2022
Book
Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution to a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a blizzard, a mounting claustrophobia makes way for uneasy dreams. Their conversations often take them in surprising directions, but when one of the men becomes a father, more and more is left unsaid. With emotional acuity and a wry humour, 'Weasels in the Attic' it is an uncanny and striking reflection on fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan.
Main title:
Weasels in the attic / Hiroko Oyamada ; translated from the Japanese by David Boyd.
Author:
Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983-, authorBoyd, David (David G.), translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2022.
Collation:
71 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781783789757 (hbk)
Dewey class:
895.636FICTION
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
3360168