Gravestones Hatch Political Critiques And Tomatoes Resist Being Eaten In The Wildly Surreal And Funny Stories Of Genpei Akasagawa, A Giant Of The Japanese Avant-gardethere Is A Small But Potent Club Of Authors-miranda July And Patti Smith Are Both Members-who Were Renowned Artists Long Before They Became Writers. Genpei Akasagawa Was Already A Giant Of The Japanese Contemporary Art World When He Began Writing These Stories, Which Earned Him Japan's Two Most Prestigious Book These Stories, Ostensibly Quiet Tales Of A Single Dad In 1970s Tokyo, A Doorknob Practices Radical Politics, A Peeled Tomato Smarts In Pain, Raw Oysters Tick Like Time Bombs And Gravestones Provide A Critique Of Capitalism. After Reading I Guess All We Have Is Freedom, You Will Never Be Able To Look At A Sliding Door, A Rubber Band Or A Plastic Gutter The Same Way Again.