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My Father the Dog
€ 14.99
ISBN: 9781800175747
My Father The Dog
is a haunting sequence of haiku inspired by real killings in an
isolated mountain village in Japan. After decades working in the city, a
man returns to his childhood home to care for his parents and their
small farm. When they die, grief, rural isolation, and mounting tensions
with neighbours lead to his slow unravelling: a threatening haiku
posted on a shed wall, the adoption of two dogs, and the growing belief
that one dog is the reincarnation of his father.
Structured in three sections echoing the three lines of a haiku, the
book moves from the man's troubled homecoming to the aftermath of the
killings, and finally to the fugitive's hallucinatory experience hiding
in the forest awaiting capture. By placing extreme violence within a
form associated with restraint and natural beauty, My Father The Dog creates a disturbing formal tension, producing a work that is spare, precise, and deeply unsettling.
64 pages.
Not Yet Published.
Printed on or after 27/08/26. Please note dispatch may take 5-10 days after publication date.
A separate order should be placed for this item. If you order this along with other items, your entire order will be held and despatched when complete.
Date of Publication: 27/08/2026
Paperback
