Dystopia books from Japan
Recommended dystopia books (6)
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If you are into dystopia here are some dystopia books from Japan for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami PT
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Em 1997, o jornalista e escritor japonês Koushun Takami sofreu uma grande decepção. O manuscrito de seu romance de estreia havia chegado à final do Japan Grand Prix Horror Novel, concurso literário voltado para a ficção de terror, mas acabou preterido. Não era para menos. Embora habituado a tramas assustadoras, o júri se alarmou com a história do jogo macabro entre adolescentes de uma mesma turma escolar que, confinados numa ilha, têm de matar uns aos outros até que reste apenas um sobrevivente. Detalhe: o organizador da sangrenta disputa é o próprio Estado japonês, imaginado pelo autor como u... continue
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De geheugenpolitie by Yoko Ogawa NL
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De bewoners van een eiland krijgen het steeds lastiger als steeds meer zaken vanwege staatswege verdwijnen.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro EN
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. ... continue
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The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada EN
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A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children's lives are all too brief.
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa EN
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**Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020** On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river, or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wa... continue