{"product_id":"toddler-hunting-and-other-stories-9780811228275","title":"Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eToddler-Hunting and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMultiplying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth, Lucy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lucy North is a Japanese translator and editor based in the southeast of England.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKono, Taeko:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Tokyo, \u003cstrong\u003eTaeko Kono\u003c\/strong\u003e (1926-2015) was \"one of the most significant feminist writers of postwar Japan\" (\u003cem\u003eJapan Times\u003c\/em\u003e).","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503912882450,"sku":"9780811228275","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e2c562db-9b48-4b3e-b3ab-f5ff281ec103.jpg?v=1730804086","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/toddler-hunting-and-other-stories-9780811228275","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}