Yōko Ogawa: 余白の愛 [Love at the Margin]
The latest addition to my website is Yōko Ogawa's 余白の愛 [Love at the Margin]. Our unnamed heroine/narrator has suddenly had serious hearing problems . We learn later that her husband…
The latest addition to my website is Yōko Ogawa's 余白の愛 [Love at the Margin]. Our unnamed heroine/narrator has suddenly had serious hearing problems . We learn later that her husband…
The latest addition to my website is Kōbō Abe's 燃えつきた地図 (The Ruined Map). On the face if it this is the story of a detective looking for a missing person.…
The latest addition to my website is Maki Kashimada's 六〇〇〇度の愛 (Love at Six Thousand Degrees). This is something of a Japanese response to the film Hiroshima mon amour, scripted by…
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…