The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P
A Novel
Rieko Matsuura
A young Japanese woman wakes up to discover that her big toe has turned into a penis in this coming-of-age novel. As she adjusts to her new sexual organ, she is forced to reconsider her body, her sexuality and her life. After fleeing from her homophobic fiance, she falls in love with a bisexual blind pianist who accepts her for whom she is, and together they join a troupe of performers--all sexually deformed and emotionally twisted men and women. This book is a highly imaginative, intelligent, and entertaining work that is praised by literary critics and scholars alike.
Publish Date
2010-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
2010-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1993
Goodreads Rating
3.54
ISBN
9784770031167
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Recommendations
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2020-03-04T18:27:37.000Z
Some of my own favorite weird/strange/experimental/lingering-afterglow/niche novels:
Out (Natsuo Kirino)
Pym (Mat Johnson)
The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa)
Under the Skin (Faber)
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P (Rieko Matsuura)
The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
Delicious Foods (Hannaham) – source