Kyoko Yoshida"s debut collection Disorientalism brings together nineteen short stories that systematically smash the boundaries of the real and its imagining. Told with a deadpan, visceral humour these stories unsettle and surprise, leading the reader into alternate realities at once comic and nightmarishly beautiful and human. This is contemporary surrealism at its best-mischievous, dissonant, dystopic, bewildering. Disorientalism introduces to Japanese and international readers alike a significant new voice in transnational literature. "Hilarious and lovable short pieces! Yoshida"s stories astonish you with their strangeness, and wise you up to the strangeness actually happening in the world." Kyoko Nakajima "Throughout the remarkable short stories of Disorientalism, a world familiar by consensus shifts along the hairline cracks of Kyoko Yoshida"s peculiarizing imagination. Philosophical, international in orientation, structurally innovative, and fantastical in their crisp,...