Platonic Love

A shocking collection of absurdist, strangely moving, and uncanny short stories, gleefully taking familiar tropes to horrifying conclusions—a revelation

A cat who looks like Orson Welles and is the grim reaper. A murder in a secret society of chivalric knights in a high school. An utterly disturbing tale involving rabbits and fathers. These short stories by Mieko Kanai, first published in Japan in the 1970s, are teeming with transgressive sexuality, nightmares, knotty family ties, endless la...