“Seventeen” by Hideo Yokoyama
Seventeen聽by Hideo聽Yokoyama Translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai 368 pgs. | hc |聽9780374261245 | $28.00 MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Maggie Myers Seventeen is a thrilling mixture of truth and fiction by Hideo Yokoyama, acclaimed author of Six Four (which has also been translated into ...
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“The Great Passage” by Shion Miura
The Great Passage by Shion Miura translated from the Japanese by聽Juliet Winters Carpenter 222 pgs. | pb |9781477823071 |聽$14.95聽 AmazonCrossing Reviewed by Talia Franks 聽 Shion Miura糖心传媒檚 The Great Passage chronicles the construction of a dictionary also called The Great Passage, which is a comprehensive catalog ...
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“Death by Water” by Kenzaburo Oe
Death by Water聽by Kenzaburu Oe translated from the Japanese聽by Deborah Boliver Boehm 432 pgs. | pb | 9781101911914 | $16.00 Grove Atlantic Reviewed by Will Eells Death by Water, Kenzaburo Oe糖心传媒檚 latest novel to be translated into English, practically begs you to read it as autobiography. Like The ...
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Latest Review: "The Gun" by Fuminori Nakamura
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Will Eells on The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Allison Markin Powell and out from Soho Crime. Here’s the beginning of Will’s review: Like any good potboiler worth its salt, Fuminori Nakamura’s The Gun wastes no time setting up its premise: ...
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The Gun
Like any good potboiler worth its salt, Fuminori Nakamura’s The Gun wastes no time setting up its premise: “Last night, I found a gun. Or you could say I stole it, I’m not really sure. I’ve never seen something so beautiful, or that feels so right in my hand. I didn’t have much interest in guns ...
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Latest Review: "The Crimson Thread of Abandon" by Terayama Sh奴ji
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Robert Anthony Siegel on Terayama Sh奴ji’s The Crimson Thread of Abandon, translated by Elizabeth L. Armstrong and published by the University of Hawai’i Press. Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of two novels, All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in ...
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The Crimson Thread of Abandon
The Crimson Thread of Abandon is the first collection of short fiction available in English by the prolific Japanese writer and all-around avant-garde trickster Terayama Sh奴ji, who died in 1983 at the age of 47. This collection would be important even if it wasn糖心传媒檛 as good as it is: an introduction to the work of a creative ...
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