Weasels in the Attic

Weasels in the Attic contains three chapters or short stories with mainly the same characters. In three completely different situations, two friends, MC and Sayiki, have a conversation each time over dinner.

Topics of conversations in this novel vary from fish breeding to weasels in the attic. Oyamada examines different perspectives on marriage, fertility, children, and attitude toward women. This novella is an impressive achievement in less than 100 pages.

I like the writing and the mood in this short novel. This was my first time reading Hiroko Oyamada, and I will read more by this author in the future.

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Details:

• author: Hiroko Oyamada
  
• full title: Weasels in the Attic
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: Japan
  
• topics: friends, marriage, fertility
  
• publisher: Granta Publications
  
• publish date: 03.11.2022
  
• pages:
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

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About the Author:

Hiroko Oyamada (小山田浩子) is a Japanese author. She won the Shincho Prize for New Writers for The Factory, which was drawn from her experiences working as a temp for an automaker’s subsidiary. Her following novel, The Hole, won the Akutagawa Prize.