Elif the Reader
The Woman in the Purple Skirt became one of the first contemporary Japanese novels I read a long time later. While it made me realize that I miss…
I thought Touring the Land of the Dead would be a perfect book. I mean, look at that title and that cover! But it was boring and bizarre…
As soon as I saw A Year in Japan, I loved it immediately. As I already love Japanese literature, I have a weakness when it comes to this…
The Little House is Kyoko Nakajima’s first novel translated into English. I don’t know why it hasn’t been translated until this year, but when it was finally translated,…
Convenience Store Women is the first book I read from Sayaka Murata. This month at the British Library, an event called Japan Now will be held. As a…
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born in 1892 and committed suicide in 1927 when he was 35 years old. He is the father of the short story in Japan. The…
Asleep was the second book I read after Banana Yoshimoto’s beautiful book Kitchen. Kitchen has made me feel so happy, and at ease, so I thought Asleep would…
The Tale of Genji was a book that I thought I would read with extreme joy after Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book. But that wasn’t the case. One…
The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the first book I’ve read from Yukiko Motoya, but with all due respect, it won’t be the last one. You will be amazed by…
The Pillow Book is a Japanese classic written over 1000 years ago. It is composed of notes by Sei Shonagon, one of the bridesmaids of the empress in…