Chômu Press, a UK imprint dedicated to publishing fiction that is both imaginative and unhindered by considerations of genre, has released I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like by Justin Isis.
Description: I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like is a collection of obsessive and yet crystalline stories set in contemporary Japan, written with savvy that is flawlessly streetwise, literary and metaphysically profound all at once.
From the back cover copy: “If a deracinated Oscar Wilde or Villiers de L’isle-Adam were transported from Europe at the end of the nineteenth century to Japan at the beginning of the twenty-first, their aesthetic ecstasies and mystical revelations might involve otherworldly street fashion, animistic consumerism and mantis-like sexual encounters. This is the world of I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like – a landscape of crystalline obsession where beauty and terror collide. In these ten stories, Justin Isis weighs miniaturised epiphanies of artificial paradise against the immense bleakness of the post-Copernican universe.”
Contents
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- Nanako
- Manami’s Hair
- The Garden of Sleep
- I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like
- The Quest for Chinese People
- A Design for Life
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- The Eye of the Living Is No Warmth
- A Thread from Heaven
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