Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Tag: Japan
Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Colorless [sic] Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
i enjoy a haruki murakami for the first time in years!
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
a big novel that’s surprisingly worthwhile
My Brother’s Husband: Volume Two by Gengoroh Tagame
part two of a beautiful graphic novel
Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami
not a great book, not a great blog post
Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare
Whales. What are they? Who are they? And why did humans stop killing them just before their extinction was finallyContinue Reading
Audition by Ryu Murakami
I haven’t read a novel by the “other” Murakami for years. In my long and distant and pre-blogging past, IContinue Reading
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is, I must begrudgingly admit, a great Haruki Murakami novel. One ofContinue Reading
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills, doesn’t quite pack the emotional punch of his later, more famous, The RemainsContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 