Japan

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, written by Satoshi Yagisawa and translated into English by Eric Ozawa, Takako feels like she…

1 year ago

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

What You Are Looking for is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama, and translated by Alison Watts, is a book…

1 year ago

The Devotion of Suspect X

I got Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X through Osusume Books. (Thank you!) Osusume Books promises to send carefully…

2 years ago

Diary of a Void

Diary of a Void, by Emi Yagi and translated into English by David Boyd and Lucy North, tells a bizarre…

2 years ago

How Do You Live?

How Do You Live? is a classic Japanese middle-grades novel written by Genzaburo Yoshino and translated into English by Bruno…

3 years ago

Before The Coffee Gets Cold

At first, I wasn't interested in reading Before The Coffee Gets Cold because every description I read sounded so twee…

3 years ago

Snacks and Stories of ‘Midnight Diner’

Another interruption in my book talk, because I discovered a new TV show. Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories is a TV…

3 years ago

‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ from Osusume Books

  View this post on Instagram   Just got my first novel from Japanese fiction curators @osusumebookscom! It came with…

5 years ago

The Island of Sea Women

Lisa See’s newest novel, The Island of Sea Woman, takes place on Korea’s Jeju Island, where women divers support themselves…

6 years ago

Convenience Store Woman

I knew from the Books and Bao review of Convenience Store Woman that the main character would be a bit odd,…

6 years ago

Go

In the Japanese novel Go, Sugihara is a zainichi chosenjin, a Korean national, but resident in Japan, the child of Korean…

7 years ago

White Chrysanthemum

White Chrysanthemum tells the story of two sisters in Japanese-occupied Korea. When the story opens, their family is living on…

7 years ago