Hiromi Ito » とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller)
The latest addition to my website is Hiromi Ito's とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller). She calls it a long poem but we might describe it as an autobiographical novel. On…
The latest addition to my website is Hiromi Ito's とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller). She calls it a long poem but we might describe it as an autobiographical novel. On…
The latest addition to my website is László Krasznahorkai's Északról hegy, Délről tó, Nyugatról utak, Keletről folyó (A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the…
The latest addition to my website is Hiroko Oyamada's いたちなく (Weasels in the Attic). This book consists of three linked stories. In the first the unnamed narrator and his friend…
The latest addition to my website is Hiroko Oyamada's 工場 (The Factory)>. We follow the stories of three employees as they go to work at the Factory and are still…
The latest addition to my website is Mieko Kawakami:'s すべて真夜中の恋人たち (All the Lovers in the Night). Our heroine/narrator is Fuyuko Irie. She is a loner. We learn nothing about her…
The latest addition to my website is Masatsugu Ono's 森のはずれで (At the Edge of the Woods). An unnamed family - husband, pregnant wife and young son, possibly Japanese - move…
The latest addition to my website is Kōbō Abe's 他人の顔 (The Face of Another). Our hero, a plastics engineer, is badly injured in an industrial accident, leaving his face badly…
The latest addition to my website is Eto Mori's カラフル (Colourful). Our unnamed hero has died but has been informed by his angel guide, Prapura, that he has won the…
The latest addition to my website is Kōbō Abe's 砂の女 (The Woman in the Dunes). A Japanese teacher is a keen collector of insects and is always hoping to find…
The latest addition to my website is Mieko Kawakami's ヘヴン (Heaven). This story is about bullying but it is no Tom Brown's School Days. Our unnamed narrator is a fourteen…