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We, the Children of Cats
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Artikel-Nr:
9781604865912
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.07.2012
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Tomoyuki Hoshino
Gewicht:
306 g
Format:
203x126x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Born in Los Angeles in 1965, Tomoyuki Hoshino returned to Japan with his family before his third birthday and spent the next twenty-three years living in the greater Tokyo-Yokohama area. After graduating with a degree in literature from Waseda University in 1988, he worked for two years as a journalist for the conservative Sankei newspaper. He left that job and Japan to study abroad in Mexico from 1991–92. After briefly returning to Japan, he received a Mexican government scholarship and resumed his studies in Mexico, where he stayed until August of 1995. From 1996–2000, he tried his hand at writing subtitles for Latin American and Spanish films. His debut novel The Last Gasp was published in 1997 and awarded the Bungei Prize.
By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology are drawn from sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Japanese folklore, and yet they ultimately reside in a slyly subversive literary world that is all their own. Blending an uncompromising ethical vision with exuberant, free-wheeling imagery and bracing formal experimentation, the five short stories and three novellas included in We, the Children of Cats show the full range and force of Hoshino's imagination