Hide and Seek (Yoshiko NAONO)

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Little Hiroshi, mortified by the hand-knitted wool pants his grandmother forces him to wear. Sweet Mari, consumed with jealousy over her baby sister. Cute Sachiko, anxious about the iron she forgot to switch off before leaving for a family trip. Ordinary human feelings, relatable mistakes—plunging into horrifying tragedy and lifelong regret. If you think every child's days are golden, you're wrong…DEAD wrong! Taken from the back pages of otherwise bright, sunny shojo magazines, HIDE AND SEEK is a collection of twelve tales of trauma by Naono Yoshiko from the early 1970s.

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