Weasels in the Attic: Hiroko Oyamada

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Oyamada’s narratives seem to focus on banalities and social convention as in the shared meals featured in each episode. But then there are sudden ruptures as in a scene recalled by the narrator’s wife, an old, macabre method for ridding houses of weasels which incidentally reinforces the conceptual gap between maternal and paternal roles. Another arresting scene involves the narrator’s nightmare about a primitive bony tongue fish, bringing to the fore the narrator’s ambivalent feelings about the prospect of becoming a father. Oyamada’s style is direct yet elliptical, there are some stirring descriptive passages and imagery, but there’s also a sense that the narratives are not quite fully formed, an impression that’s possibly deliberate, reflecting the narrator’s inability to confront or fully comprehend the feelings stirred by his interactions. Oyamada’s fragmented approach to contemplating the nature of heterosexual families, fatherhood and lifestyle choices through her conflicted narrator is interesting, novel and engaging. But the work as a whole could also seem unnecessarily vague and insubstantial. Translated by David Boyd. Ominous snippets of text like this build the sense that the scenes of domesticity aren’t all they seem. The overwhelming scent of plums, roast boar and fish food that punctuate the story are the cherry on top of concoctions of unease that Oyamada brews with a slight of hand. The narrator and his wife visit the couple. It turns out that the narrator’s wife’s family had had the problem of weasels when she was a child and they had found a way, albeit cruel, to deal with the problem. Un-su Kim’s novels take on the capricious drudgery of modern professional life and the crazed whimsy and sociopathic violence it can inspire. Asia Media International – A Publication from Loyola Marymount University's Asia Pacific Media Center in Los Angeles

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Their size is exactly the reason as to why an extra-small, or small live trap is necessary. How Long Is A Weasel? This is a great question. Think about it: if all most of their prey is hibernating, what do weasels eat during the winter? The end result is that Weasels in the Attic is a disquieting meditation on motherhood in Japan—a shrinking society where heavily gendered expectations for parents endure.My grandma told my dad that it was the mother weasel they'd caught, and that a whole family had been living up there. She said that sound - the mother weasel's final scream - was a warning to the father weasel and their children...It's a good thing we got the mother, she said. When you get a baby, they just scream for help. Father weasels get violent and wear themselves out trying to chew through the cage before you can even get them in the water. The mother's the best"

Weasels in the Attic’s Exploration of Parenthood - Ploughshares Weasels in the Attic’s Exploration of Parenthood - Ploughshares

One of the few characters willing to question the status quo is Asa’s shut-in brother-in-law. For all we know he is a product of Asa’s subconscious, since we never see him interact with anyone else. Though friendly to Asa, he explains that he has cut himself off from the world out of disgust with humanity. He reserves his greatest disdain not for greed or evil but for the human submission to what he calls “this current that never stops,” which is to say inertia, or liberal democracy, or capitalism. Weasel prey on small mammals like mice, frogs, snakes, or bugs are used to either hibernating, migrating, or simply retreating to warmer areas during the winter. Because of animal’s attunement with nature, food becomes a major issue for weasels. Review: ‘The Ocean At The End Of The Lane’– A Theatrical Examination Of The Uncertainty Of Juvenescence Not very long at all. Weasels are considered “short” in the animal kingdom. Different genres of weasels vary in length, yet all of them are within the same range.

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But all you’ve got to do is find the hole, right?” asks Saiki’s old childhood friend, the novel’s narrator. Yes, when they pierce their sharp incisors into their prey, blood leaks out, which is why we think they drink blood. This is a common question amongst those who are unaware of the ravaging weasel. Personally, I’m glad to say to you that weasels do not drink blood.