Nails and Eyes

Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer.

A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. As she obsessively tries to curate a pristine life, this new interloper remains indifferent to the girl, who seems to record her every move - and she realises only too late all that she has failed to see.

With masterful narrative control, Nails and Eyes builds to a conclusion of disturbing power. Paired with two additional stories of unsettled minds and creeping tension, it introduces a daring new voice in Japanese literature.

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Sharp, unsettling literary horror from an Akutagawa Prize-winning Japanese writer - for readers of Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez and Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung.

Launches Pushkin's second series of Japanese Novellas - six short, cutting-edge works from the new luminaries of Japanese fiction.