
I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in' So says Angela Carter of this collection written during a period living in Toyko These exotic sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short story form Lush imaginary forests a murderous puppet show & an expressionistic vision of Japan each one instantly conjures an atmosphere dark & luminous in turn & from the recognisably daring imagination of one of the great twentieth-century stylists