Written: 23 November 2015
Got to chatting about Japanese literature today and here’s a list of my fave Japanese novels (in no particular order - my evergreen No.1 is Kawabata):
+ Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
+ Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
+ Palm of the hand stories - Yasunari Kawabata
+ Kokoro - Natsumi Soseki
+ Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
+ The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzo
+ Silence - Shusaku Endo
+ Shiokari Pass - Ayako Miura
+ Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
+ The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai
+ A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
+ All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe
+ Be With You - Takuji Ishikawa
PS: A Haruki Murakami fan, by the way.
- A Wild Sheep Chase
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Norwegian Wood (*)
- Dance Dance Dance
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (*)
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- Kafka on the Shore (*)
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (*)
* The ones I will re-read
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