We, The Children of Cats showcases a new collection of provocative early works by Tomoyuki Hoshino, winner of the 2011 Kenzaburo Oe Award in Literature. Drawing on sources as diverse as Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, Kenji Nakagami and traditional Japanese folklore, Hoshino creates a challenging, slyly subversive literary world all his own. By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and incandescent, the stories in this anthology demonstrate Hoshino's view of literature as 'an art that wavers, like a heat shimmer'.