Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1982)
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A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
JapanDescription:
This collection of stories is distinguished by its lightheartedness and comicealism.
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Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
Description:
The journals of a seventy-seven year old man recovering from a stroke and frustrated with the limitations of his decaying body sustain a novel of the tragicomedy of human existence.
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Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
Description:
A suspenseful early novella about obsession, voyeurism, and Tokyo's seedy criminal underworld
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The Maids by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
Description:
A major discovery: Tanizaki's wonderful final novel--now in English
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The Gourmet Club : A Sextet by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
Description:
This dazzling collection of six decadent tales spans 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's modern master storyteller.
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Description:
This thought-provoking and intriguing tale, by the Akutagawa Prize-nominated master short story writer Kanji Hanawa, revolves around the extraordinary real story of the seven-year-old boy who went missing in the bear-inhabited forests of northern Japan for six whole days in 2016, after his parents had apparently abandoned him as a punishment. In Backlight, a child is left alone at the side of a road in the mountains of Hokkaido in northern Japan by his parents. When they return moments later, the boy is gone. Ishida, a Professor of Psychology is enlisted as part of the search team. As days pas... continue
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Come Rain Or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro EN
Description:
In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
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Description:
"The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan. Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them--a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century"--Page 4 of cover.
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa EN
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A trio of novellas explores the mysteries of love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, innocence, and cruelty, in the stories of a lonely teenage girl who falls in love with her foster brother, a young woman who records her pregnant sister's daily moods ina
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Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami EN
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A boy is obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches. He goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at her face. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait