Tuesday, May 24, 2016

If you ever want to read a Japanese novel...


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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