isolarii #17. Dunderhead is the English-language debut of the 92-year-old avant-garde Japanese writer Tomoko Yoshida. Three clinically precise stories of scarcity, pride, and resentment rooted in the afterlife of empire. Beneath the starkness of her world, there is a deep empathy fro the “dunderheands” who carry it. Written between 1967 and 1977. Translated by Adam Sutherland .
324 pages, 7 × 11 cm, paperback