- Published: 03/08/2023
- ISBN: 9781783789764
- Granta Books
- 80 pages
Weasels in the Attic
Hiroko Oyamada
Translated by David Boyd
Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution to a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a blizzard, a mounting claustrophobia makes way for uneasy dreams. Their conversations often take them in surprising directions, but when one of the men becomes a father, more and more is left unsaid.
With emotional acuity and a wry humour, Weasels in the Attic it is an uncanny and striking reflection on fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan.
£8.99
Simmers with eerie tension and bursts with unforgettable monologues
NPR
Oyamada is in complete control of her talent... A writer flexing their muscles and preparing for something truly profound
Japan Times
Surreal and mesmerizing
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‘The breeze smelled of many things: autumn and earth, the green of the countryside, face powder and old age.’