Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories

From the anguish of girlhood & womanhood, we descend into the abyss of strange nightmares. In his review of “Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories” by Taeko Kono, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North, Eric Banks says, “From story to story Kono’s mostly female subjects go in & out of fugal states of imagined violence, or abruptly find themselves hostage to childhood memories, or shake themselves out of dreams & nightmares. Middle-class & childless, often in recovery from some illness, they inhabit freighted or loveless relationships.” — 4 Columns

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Lucy North is the translator of fiction & nonfiction by over half a dozen modern & contemporary Japanese writers, including Taeko Kono, Fumiko Enchi, Hiroko Oyamada, & Hiromi Kawakami. 

Lucy North’s translations include Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories (New Directions, 1996; 2018), 10 stories by Taeko Kono, Record of a Night Too Brief (Pushkin Press, 2017), a collection of 3 stories by Hiromi Kawakami, & The Woman in the Purple Skirt (Faber & Faber & Penguin Books, 2021), a novel by Natsuko Imamura. She lives in Hastings, East Sussex.