We, The Children of Cats showcases a new collection of provocative early works by Tomoyuki Hoshino, winner of the 2011 Kenzaburo Oe Award in Literature. Drawing on sources as diverse as Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, Kenji Nakagami and traditional Japanese folklore, Hoshino creates a challenging, slyly subversive literary world all his own. By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and incandescent, the stories in this anthology demonstrate Hoshino's view of literature as 'an art that wavers, like a heat shimmer'.
A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air. A man travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary purpose and finds much more than he bargains for. A journalist investigates a poisoning at an elementary school and gets lost in an underworld of buried crimes, secret societies and haunted forests. Two young killers, exiled from Japan, find a new beginning as resistance fighters in Peru...
