Keizo Hino: 夢の島 (Isle of Dreams)
The latest addition to my website is Keizo Hino's 夢の島 (Isle of Dreams). Keizo Hino has been compared to J G Ballard and, while they are different in many ways,…
The latest addition to my website is Keizo Hino's 夢の島 (Isle of Dreams). Keizo Hino has been compared to J G Ballard and, while they are different in many ways,…
The latest addition to my website is Kyūsaku Yumeno's ドグラマグラ (Dogra Magra). This is another Japanese epic - seven hundred pages in the Japanese original - which is both an…
The latest addition to my website is Fumiko Hayashi's 浮雲 (Floating Clouds). Before saying anything else about it, I should point out that this Fumiko Hayashi is nothing to with…
The latest addition to my website is Mori Ōgai's 雁 (The Wild Geese). This is a gentle novel of love. Okada is a medical student at Tokyo University, a good-looking,…
I am well aware that, while I have quite a few reviews of books published by independent presses, I do not have many published by UK-based independent presses, publishing books…
The latest addition to my website is Tōson Shimazaki's 夜明け前 (Before the Dawn). This a massive (750+ page) novel about the events before and after the Meiji Restoration of 1868,…
This article by critic Geney Beltrán Félix (in Spanish), entitled Esto es lo que (no) hay: la literatura en el México del 2016 [This is what there is (not): literature…
The latest addition to my website is Shūsaku Endō's 侍 (The Samurai). This novel is based on a true story and tells the story of a Japanese expedition in the…
The latest addition to my website is Chiya Fujino's ルート225 [Route 225]. This tells the story of a teenage girl, Eriko Tanaka, and her brother, Daigo. One day, Daigo is…
The latest addition to my website is Chiyo Uno's 色ざんげ (Confessions of Love). This 1930s novel was written by a free-spirited writer who was also an expert in fashion. She…