Domestic fiction books from Japan
Recommended domestic fiction books (3)
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If you are into domestic fiction here are some domestic fiction books from Japan for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume EN
Description:
Though the total book is held together by the continuing theme of a nameless cat's observations on upper middle-class Japanese society of the Meiji era, its essence is in the humor and the sardonic truth of these various observations.
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My Neighbor Totoro: The Novel by Tsugiko Kubo EN
Description:
One of Studio Ghibli’s most beloved classics, Totoro celebrates its 25th anniversary! The beloved animation classic by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro, is now a novel. This edition features original illustrations by Miyazaki himself, accompanying a story by veteran children’s author Tsugiko Kubo. Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei have moved to the country to be closer to their ailing mother. Soon, in the woods behind their spooky old house, Satsuki and Mei discover a forest spirit named Totoro. When Mei goes missing, it’s up to Satsuki ... continue
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Description:
Inspired largely by the poets experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, Mathew Hendersons "The Lease" explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it. Equal parts character study, cultural documentary, and coming-of-age narrative, Hendersons poems make it clear that however we may try to stay apart from them, the stubborn and often unflattering realities of masculine culture persist, not just in isolated, dangerous environments like this, but in our very idea of what work is. "No mark survives this place: you too will yield to unmemory. ... continue