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Apr 18, 2018 · The Bookshop Woman is a lovely nonfiction book that’s also a love letter to reading. This book starts off with Nanako Hanada: homeless, recently separated, and she’s worked all her life as a clerk at a Village Vanguard (a Japanese bookstore chain). Nanako knows two things about herself, she likes reading and she loves recommending books.
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Jun 3, 2023 · Told from the cat protagonist’s perspective as it wanders the neighborhood eavesdropping on gossiping residents, Soseki created a quintessentially Japanese work of literature that has rightly stood the tough test of time. I Am a Cat – Available at Amazon. 3. The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura.
Aug 1, 2024 · The Bookshop Woman, written by Nanako Hanada and translated from the Japanese by Cat Anderson, tells the story of one such reader. Nanako is the eponymous bookshop woman. She has the rare ability to write about herself without getting too self-absorbed, and her prose is a pleasure to read.
In the forward, the book’s editor, Ivan Morris, who translated some of the stories, provides a brief Japanese history from the Meiji Era, when the Western form of literature was first introduced ...
Jun 22, 2018 · Keiko loves her job as a convenience store worker and excels in the position (organization, stocking, customer service, selling, etc). Her job is everything to her. After eighteen years, her family and friends think she should get a real career or at least get married. Keiko earnestly and bravely attempts to meet their cultural expectations.
Mar 26, 2020 · Norwegian Wood is Murakami’s most famous novel and one of the most famous Japanese novels in English. This book follows the story of Toru Watanabe, a student in Tokyo in the 1960s. He’s quiet and serious but somehow ends up entangled between two beautiful, but very different, women.
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Apr 23, 2019 · When Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman came out in English in 2018, it was an immediate hit, selling over 650,000 copies and winning the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Although Japanese writers such as Haruki Murakami and the British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro have steadily gained popularity in the West, contemporary Japanese literature remains rare in […]
