Books from Japan
131 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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Night on the Galactic Railroad & Other Stories from Ihatov by Kenji Miyazawa EN
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Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories which focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice and faith which were near and dear to his heart. "The Nighthawk Star" follows an lowly bird as he struggles to transform himself into something greater, a constellation in the night sky; "Signal & Signal-less" depicts a pair of star-crossed train signals who dream of eloping to the moon; and "Night ... continue
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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai EN
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Now in a retro gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienation: Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami EN
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When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
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Pădurea norvegiană by Haruki Murakami RO
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Romanul Pădurea norvegiană, care-și împrumută titlul de la un hit al formației Beatles, Norwegian Wood, are ca fond atmosfera social-politică agitată a anilor '60. Narațiunea opune acestui laitmotiv dur momente de o intimitate emoțională răscolitoare.
Povestea lui Toru Watanabe urmăreste firul implicațiilor psihologice născute din dragostea imposibilă pentru iubita prietenului mort. Totul se petrece pe fundalul unor episoade marcate la tot pasul de scene erotice în camere sordide de cămin studențesc, de afișe și de discuri cu Jim Morrison, Miles Davis sau Bach, de lecturi d... continue
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País de nieve by Yasunari Kawabata ES
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Shimamura regresa al Pais de nieve atraido por la belleza de la estacion y eltradicional estilo de vida. Pero vuelve especialmente por Komako, una jovenaprendiz de geisha que conocio en un viaje anterior. El es un hombre rico, demediana edad, que intenta escapar de un matrimonio sombrio y de su vida enTokio. Ella, una bellisima mujer vulnerable a sus propias emociones, que maduraante los ojos de su amante.El amor apasionado que Shimamura despiera en Komako le plantea un dilema: incapaz de corresponderlo, pero a la vez fascinado por su intensidad, optara porrepetir y prolongar su estadia en las... continue
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Pálida luz en las colinas by Kazuo Ishiguro ES
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Despus del suicidio de su hija mayor, Etsuko, una japonesa de cincuenta aos instalada en Inglaterra, rememora momentos de su vida. Quiz la explicacin de esta tragedia familiar se encuentre agazapada en aquel Japn de los aos cincuenta que se recuperaba de las heridas de la guerra y del traumatismo de la bomba atmica...En la memoria de Etsuko aparece - de forma obsesiva, recurrente - la imagen de otra mujer, Sachiko, una amiga y vecina que viva sola con su hija Mariko. Dos personajes enigmticos, a cul ms inquietante. La pequea Mariko parece haber vivido una cruel y dolorosa experiencia, que redu... continue
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People from My Neighborhood : Stories by Hiromi Kawakami EN
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Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical—"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre" (Financial Times). A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever hear... continue
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Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa EN
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as "The Nose", "O-Gin" and "Loyalty" paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears", Akutagawa drew from his own... continue
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing : A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto EN
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Profiled in The Times, The Independent and by BBC Reels I’m starting a service . . . available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there’s a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own. Maybe a game you want to play, but you’re one person short. Or perhaps you’d like someone to keep a space in the park for your cherry blossom viewing party . . . Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss that he contributed nothing to the company he worked for and that it made no difference whether he showed up or not. He began to wonder whe... continue