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Tag: Translated: Japanese

November 10, 2020

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth How do you feel about the prospect of someone having sex with their grandfather? And…

September 22, 2020

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth When Breasts and Eggs appeared in bookshops alongside all the Murakamis, Convenience Store…

September 17, 2020

People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by Ted Goossen Review by Anna Hollingsworth With Hiromi Kawakami, you don’t know what to expect other than that her writing will be…

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August 11, 2020

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Translated by Stephen Snyder Paperback review by Annabel Yoko Ogawa’s latest novel has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize: the winner to be…

June 18, 2020

The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

Translated by Yumiko Yamazaki Review by Terence Jagger This Japanese detective thriller is set in the 1940s and so is relatively ‘modern’, but only…

December 10, 2019

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai Reviewed by Harriet This delightful reprint from Pushkin Press is widely viewed as one of Japan’s greatest murder mysteries….

Red Circle Minis
July 9, 2019

Tragedy, Farce and the Future: the Red Circle Minis

Review by Karen Langley As I’ve explained in my Bookbuzz feature, the Red Circle Minis are three slim volumes of original writing published by…

Picnic Storm yukiko Motoya
March 14, 2019

Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya

Translated by Asa Yoneda Review by Anna Hollingsworth The title of Yukiko Motoya’s short story collection Picnic in the Storm could easily be a…

If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
November 22, 2018

If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura

Translated by Eric Selland Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Who doesn’t deal with the devil every now and again? Or perhaps a god from your…

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
October 25, 2018

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen Review by Rob Spence The strap line chosen by the publishers for the cover of this massive…

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May 29, 2018

Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

Translated by Geraldine Harcourt Reviewed by Annabel This latest addition to Penguin Classic’s expanding list of new translations in an upmarket paperback format is…

June 6, 2016

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama

Translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies Reviewed by Gill Davies What an odd novel! It is Yokoyama’s sixth, his first to be translated into English, and…

December 8, 2015

Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino

Translated by Alexander O Smith with Joseph Reeder. Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the first novel I’ve read by Keigo Higashino – indeed,…

October 8, 2015

The Miner by Natsume Soseki

In a new translation by Jay Rubin Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite Shiny new publisher: Aardvark Bureau, the new Gallic Books imprint headed up by…

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