Description
From the author of The Hole and The Factory, a collection of strange and wonderful tales of humans, animals, and plants
Crabs scurrying over a landfill. Huge tadpoles writhing in a pond. A gecko stuck to the window. A sudden invasion of ants. Nature mysteriously creeps in and overruns the realm of humans in this stunning collection of stories.
Hiroko Oyamada masterfully conveys the sense that seemingly stable and ordinary people are cracking at the edges, that a surreal encounter with an animal can change the entire course of one’s life, that an obscure local ritual can have profound consequences. In these fifteen stories we find young couples navigating pregnancies, toddlers, and in-laws; men and women returning to their childhood homes to rediscover the enigmatic traditions they’d left behind; and children who plumb dreamlike riddles in the natural world.
Reviews
""Surreal and mesmerizing."" — Hilary Leichter, The New York Times
"“Nothing feels fixed; everything in the book might be a hallucination."" — Parul Seghal, The New York Times Book Review
"“Flickers between mirage and deadpan realism, and lurks in the imagination like a haunting."" — Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books
Also By: Hiroko Oyamada 
Weasels in the Attic
Paperback, 2022
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan
Weasels in the Attic
E Book, 2022
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan
The Hole
Paperback, 2020
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling
The Hole
E Book, 2020
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling
The Factory
Paperback, 2019
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan
Also By: David Boyd
Weasels in the Attic
Paperback, 2022
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary JapanWeasels in the Attic
E Book, 2022
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary JapanThe Hole
Paperback, 2020
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettlingThe Hole
E Book, 2020
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettlingThe Factory
Paperback, 2019
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan
Also By: Lucy North
Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories
Paperback, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018An 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
E Book, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018An unforgettable collection of stories from “the most carnally direct and the most lucidly intelligent woman writing in Japan” (Kenzaburo Oe)