(Paperback)

With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and film and literary critic Mieko Kanai - whose often dark and cynical work occupies something of a cult place within the Japanese canon - is a disconcerting and astute portrait of life in late-stage capitalist society.

(Paperback)

A deeply eccentric novel about lives and connectionsand a cat of coursein 1980s Tokyo: witty, offbeat, and strangely profound.