A UK debut from a fresh prize-winning talent this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans
of Sayaka Murata and Mieko Kawakami Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room
of a pet shop they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in
the mountains they look for a solution to a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a
blizzard a mounting claustrophobia makes way for uneasy dreams. Their conversations often take
them in surprising directions but when one of the men becomes a father more and more is left
unsaid. With emotional acuity and a wry humour Weasels in the Attic it is an uncanny and
striking reflection on fertility masculinity and marriage in contemporary Japan.
