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Shinya Tanaka

Cannibals

During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-year-old Shinogaki Toma is entangled in a desperate struggle against what he believes to be his fate to become his sadistic father. Consumed by a fear that he will harm his girlfriend, Toma's downward spiral into depression and instability becomes increasingly intense. Toma's mother left his father long ago and now lives nearby as a fishmonger. Using the hook that replaced the hand she lost during wartime bombings, she guts the eels Toma catches in the sewage-filled river for his father to eat. Things come to a head when Kotoko, his father's live in girlfriend, becomes pregnant and makes the decision to leave the riverside for a better life.
Translated from Japanese by Kalau Almony, Tanaka Shinya's Akutagawa Prize-winning masterpiece, Cannibals, sold over 200,000 copies in Japan and was adapted into a movie by Cannes Film Festival-winner Shinji Aoyama.
66 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
Publisher
Honford Star
Translator
Kalau Almony
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Quotes

  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 months ago
    the prosthetic hand of the fish shop owner
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    Remember this. I’m a coward. Instead of doing it myself, I’m gonna let my dad and mom kill themselves.”

    “Is there something wrong with that?”

    “Of course there’s something wrong with it.”
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    You won’t be able to. He’s never hit you.”

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