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Weasels in the attic

Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983-2023
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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.
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2023.
Collation:
71 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.This translation originally published: 2022.
ISBN:
9781783789764 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
895.636
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
2638152
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