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New Release: ‘Kaleidoscope Japan’ an epic immersive new book about Japanese literature
From the acclaimed publisher of Japanese fiction in translation comes an epic, immersive new book about Japanese literature. After a lifetime reading Japanese literature and… Read more »
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‘The Line’ a new Kafkaesque work by Fuminori Nakamura is making headlines in Japan
Earlier this month Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest and most prestigious publishers, released The Line, Retsu, a provocative new novel by the award-winning Fuminori Nakamura… Read more »
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Rave Reviews for ‘My Annihilation’ a compulsive dark tale by Fuminori Nakamura, out now in English
‘From the first sentence—“Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life”—Nakamura plays tricks on the reader, the narrator, and even the notion of… Read more »
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“Monkey Man” by Takuji Ichikawa a writer who understands the zeitgeist, published today, is a gripping mix of the fantastical and the everyday
A world on the brink of disaster, where children with new attitudes are awakening with strange new abilities – but can they change the course… Read more »
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New Release: ‘Monkey Man’, a tale that challenges readers to consider how and who can save the human race from itself, by Takuji Ichikawa
A world on the brink of disaster, where children with new attitudes are awakening with strange new abilities – but can they change the course… Read more »
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Major new novel by the Naoki prize-winning Kazufumi Shiraishi ‘The Genies of Fountain Blue’ launched by Shinchosha
The Genies of Fountain Blue, Fauntenburu no majin tachi, by the multi prize-winning author Kazufumi Shiraishi, released in tanko-bon format in Japan last month by Shinchosha, is… Read more »
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‘The Card Shark’ a new full-length novel by Fuminori Nakamura released in hardback in Japan
Earlier this month Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, a Japanese publisher linked to one of Japan’s most prestigious national newspapers, launched a tanko-bon, hardback, edition of The Card Shark (Kaado-shi), by… Read more »
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‘Returning to My First Cry’ a new novel by the multi award-winning Kazufumi Shiraishi launched in ‘Shosetsu Gendai’
Shosetsu Gendai (Contemporary Novels), a recently re-designed monthly magazine with a long and distinguished pedigree published by Japan’s largest publishing house Kodansha, launched Returning to… Read more »
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Flurry of new editions and anthologies from Red Circle authors launched in Japan
Since the end of last year, during the height of the pandemic and even though Japan had declared its second state of emergency in early… Read more »
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‘One Love Chigusa’ by Soji Shimada, published today, is an intense multi-layered novella that explores the mechanics of the heart and humankind’s inevitable evolution
One Love Chigusa, a new work by one of Japan’s most renowned authors Soji Shimada published today is a tale of obsessive love in a… Read more »
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