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Tomoko Yoshida – Dunderhead

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For sixty years, Tomoko Yoshida, one of Japan's most enigmatic, avant-garde writers of the twentieth century, has refused translation. Dunderhead is the book-length English-language debut of Tomoko Yoshida, age 92: a brutal, lucid triptych—of poverty, resentment, the body's last defenses—written between 1967 and 1977. A bored grocery store employee drowns a neighbours kitten in sewage, nudging a pram downhill until it meets a telephone pole. A man visits his dying enemy—and only friend—in a final attempt at dominance. A poor, shame-ridden woman named "Crab" observes the violence surrounding he

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