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Recommended cultural books (13)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into cultural here are some cultural books from Japan for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that ma... continue

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The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
A story of unfulfilled love set against a background of social change.

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The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn't a stalker - it's much more complicated than that.