Tag: Japanese literature

While reading this huge book called 1Q84, I got lost in myself and discovered new places. Actually, whenever I read Haruki Murakami, the same thing happens more or…

The Cat Who Saved Books might have been a book I would have loved if I had read it when I was a teenager, but unfortunately, it disappointed…

Spring Garden is an Akutagawa Award winner book and, unfortunately, a short one. Although it is not one of the best and most beautiful examples of Japanese literature, I…

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness is the second book I’ve read after Kenzaburo Oe’s A Personal Problem. After reading his stories, I remembered how much I loved…

Strange Weather in Tokyo is the first book I’ve read by Hiromi Kawakami, but it certainly won’t be the last. I haven’t read such an interesting and lovely…

The Woman in the Dunes was a book that had been waiting in my bookshelves for years. Recently, when it was chilling outside, it caught my eye, and…

Monkey Man is the second book I read by the Japanese author Takuji Ichikawa after The Refugees’ Daughter. I like this book as well as his first book,…

Confessions of a Mask is the third book I read by Yukio Mishima, after Death in Midsummer and Other Stories and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with…

Silence was one of those books that had been waiting to be read in my library for a long time, and I didn’t want to read it. I…