The Hunting Gun
Pushkin Press · first published 1949 · 112 pages
A poet is sent three letters, written by three women, about one long love affair.
Short and finely balanced, each letter shifts the light on the ones that came before it.
For a night spent rereading old letters.
About this book
A poet publishes a short poem about a hunter glimpsed on a mountain path, and soon the hunter, Misugi, sends him three letters he has kept. They come from his lover's daughter, from his wife, and from his lover herself. Each woman sees the same long affair from her own side, and each reveals something the others could not. What stays is the sense that no one person ever holds the whole story.