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Review of ‘Kitchen’ by Banana Yoshimoto

01/05/2025 nsford Leave a comment

First published in 1988, this Japanese bestselling novel has been on my radar for a while, even before I read…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Banana Yoshimoto, books, fiction, reviews, translations

Review of ‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’ by Satoshi Yagisawa

12/07/2024 nsford 2 Comments

This is a pleasant, simple read which has the simple yet elegant narration I have often encountered in novels translated…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, Satoshi Yagisawa, translations

Review of ‘The Premonition’ by Banana Yoshimoto

14/11/2023 nsford 2 Comments

A quietly supernatural, simply-written short novel about family. It’s narrated by Yayoi, who goes to stay with her otherworldly aunt…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Banana Yoshimoto, books, fiction, reviews, translations

Review of ‘The Mantis’ by Kotaro Isaka

02/11/2023 nsford Leave a comment

This is the third of Isaka’s books I’ve read. I thought it wasn’t as good as Bullet Train (it does…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, crime fiction, Kotaro Isaka, reviews, translations

Review of ‘Satan’s Diary’ by Leonid Andreyev

14/10/2023 nsford Leave a comment

What if Satan, bored and lonely, took over the body of an American multi-millionaire and went to Europe, where he…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, Leonid Andreyev, reviews, translations

Review of ‘The Mystery of Henri Pick’ by David Foenkinos

25/09/2023 nsford Leave a comment

A quirky contemporary novel about literature and relationships, the book is not in the mystery genre, although it does have…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, David Foenkinos, fiction, reviews, translations

Review of ‘Dragon Palace’ by Hiromi Kawakami

12/09/2023 nsford Leave a comment

An odd, unsettling collection of short stories from the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop and Strange Weather in Tokyo.…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Hiromi Kawakami, reviews, short stories, translations

Review of ‘The Neverending Story’ by Michael Ende

13/03/2023 nsford 11 Comments

An intelligent, epic fantasy novel for children but possibly best appreciated by adults. I think much of it is symbolic…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, children's fiction, fantasy, Michael Ende, reviews, translations

Review of ‘Life Ceremony’ by Sayaka Murata

03/07/2022 nsford 4 Comments

A weird, grotesque collection of short stories which engages with concepts of morality and humanity. Most of the content requires…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, Sayaka Murata, short stories, translations

Review of ‘Stalking the Atomic City’ by Markiyan Kamysh

20/04/2022 nsford 3 Comments

It was very strange to be reading this book (in March) during the war in Ukraine, as it was originally…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Markiyan Kamysh, memoir, non-fiction, reviews, translations

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