Tag: Japanese books

Inheritors by Asako Serizawa shows the effects of WWII on families through stories spanning decades. Set in the USA and Japan, it explores how history is lived.

Spark by Japanese author Naoki Matayoshi is both inspiring and sad. A novel about two Manzai performers who pour their souls into their art, only to find out that the audience wants something different.

In Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings, the submissive, the witch, and the rebel all deal with society's expectations in their own way.

"You could give women something real. Real hope. Precedent. Empowerment." That’s the type of novel Natsuko Natsume, our main character, considers writing and that Japanese author Mieko Kawakami has delivered with Breasts and Eggs.

A locked-room murder, red-ochre-painted walls and the sound of the koto. Can you solve the murder mystery faster than private detective Kosuke Kindaichi?

The Japanese author Hiroko Oyamada has the uncanny skill to turn you into one of the main characters of the book. You are part of The Factory.

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Marukami is a really good book with an interesting story. There, I've said it, am I now allowed to join the sheeplessnessclub? This book is set in Japan and more specifically in Tokyo, Sapporo and the fictional Junitaki township north of Asahikawa in Hokkaido.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami is a book of growth, about a person gaining color and facing his past.

Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono is about a young boy who has known no love and doesn’t know what to do with himself in this world.

Are you often wondering what to read next and which books help you immerse yourself while traveling abroad? See here what I read in October 2019.