Books from Japan
291 popular japanese books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Japan.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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El Templo del Alba by Yukio Mishima ES
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Considerada como el testamento ideológico y literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), «El mar de la fertilidad» es una tetralogía en la que el autor abarca a través de su inconfundible mundo narrativo la evolución del Japón desde comienzos del siglo xx hasta los años1970, expresando su rebeldía contra una sociedad que él consideraba sumida en la decadencia moral y espiritual. Obra transida de espiritualidad oriental a la vez que malévolo retrato del Japón posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, EL TEMPLO DEL ALBA (1970) es una novela que, como las del resto de la serie, participa de un torrente d... continue
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Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota EN
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Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic, she regularly put 'knife before life', knowing it was all going to be worth it because it would lead to her longed-for career. But if the punishing hours in surgery weren't hard enough, she also faced challenges as a young female surgeon navigating a male-dominated specialty. She was regularly left to carry out complex procedures without senior surgeons' oversight; she was called all sorts of things, from 'emotional' to 'too confident'... continue
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ENCUENTROS SECRETOS by Kobo Abe ES
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Kobo Abe nos presenta una surrealista y psicodélica historia en esta obra. Una noche una ambulancia llega a la casa del protagonista de la novela y se lleva a su mujer sin que esta presente síntomas de estar enferma. El hombre va a buscarla y descubre un hospital que es tan grande como una ciudad, se pierde en sus pasillos y descubre extraños personajes y demenciales experimentos sexuales.
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Facing the Bridge by Yōko Tawada EN
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From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination
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Formosan Vampire : From the Chronicles of Seth Ardelean the Cro-magnon Vampire by Amadeus Rockefeller EN
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The Award Winning epic novel about the life of a 42,000 year old Cro-Magnon man who became a vampire king and ruled the most fearsome empire in history. In the shadowy depths of Taiwan's infamous Lyudao Island Prison, a figure shrouded in enigma and terror awaits his fate on death row. Known to a few as Seth, the formidable leader of the Dark Order, a clandestine legion of vampires, this entity's true identity remains a mystery. Why would a being of such power and darkness willingly surrender to mortal chains? It isn't until Eunice Wang, a tenacious young paralegal, steps into the cell of this... continue
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Fox Tales by Tomihiko Morimi EN
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A collection of four spooky tales for the modern era, all tied to a certain Kyoto curio shop. A basket wriggles, a masked man lingers in the dark, and things are offered, lost, and forgotten. What mysteries lie hidden in the city's winding streets? Tomihiko Morimi offers a stylish glimpse into the beguiling and mysterious darkness of the old capital.
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa EN
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Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime! In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail” limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother’s bodies...the legendary Philosopher’s Stone. Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and ... continue
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Geisha : A Life by Mineko Iwasaki EN
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A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.
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Ghosts by Morio Kita EN
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A pattern on a carpet; a red cocktail cherry; hide-and-seek in the dark; gravestones; a waterfall; a silver butterfly; a sister's death; a botched drawing; the sound of a flute.... Ghosts is a novel about the quest for a lost childhood, of which only fragments like these remain. Memory is focused like a magnifying glass on these clues to one man's past. Small, commonplace things are thus enhanced, and even simple events--relaxing in a bath, or flying a kite, or being unable to whistle--take on the same kind of aura that more dramatic ones have. In trying to remember, the narrator lea... continue