The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge review – powerfully strange www.theguardian.com

Whichever way you look at it, the publication of The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge is a big deal.
The Swamp, which gathers together 11 stories from the mid-60s, is the first volume in a series of seven by Tsuge that Drawn & Quarterly plans to publish in the coming years.
I found them powerfully strange: here was a world I had not encountered before, and it took a little getting used to.
Photograph: Yoshiharu TsugeSome of the stories are only vignettes, so brief they end almost before they begin.
• The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge is published by Drawn & Quarterly (£18.99).