Weasels in the Attic

A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata and Mieko KawakamiTwo 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.

Product details

• Authors: Hiroko Oyamada
• Assisted by: David Boyd (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781783789764
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-976-4
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary