Japanese Fiction Public
Créée et modérée par Christof
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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus
4 étoiles
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and “Kitchen,” the dazzling English-language …
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At the End of the Matinee by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Keiichiro Hirano
Originally published in Japanese as: Matinee no owarini. Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the …
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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 étoiles
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind …
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder, Yôko Ogawa
4 étoiles
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
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Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated …
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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
5 étoiles
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close …
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Diary of a Void by David Boyd, Lucy North, Emi Yagi
When 34-year-old Ms Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds …
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The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set …
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4 étoiles
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences …
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Time Differences by Jeffrey Angles, Yōko Tawada
Mamoru wakes up at 9am in Berlin, eats breakfast, and then sets off to teach a Japanese language class, carrying …
