The Japan TimesMar 8, 2025
The Akutagawa Prize-winning novel focuses on a “situationship” trio of young office workers at the same workplace who have mixed feelings for food and each other. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/03/08/books/junko-takase-book-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #junkotakase #akutagawaprize #morgangiles #literature #translation #books
‘May You Have Delicious Meals’: The ugly taste of office and gender politics

The English-language debut of Junko Takase’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel serves complex prose in translation by Morgan Giles.

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マリオ (Mario Menti)Dec 29, 2023

For #JanuaryInJapan I'm reading Yu Miri's The End Of August (tr. Morgan Giles). Looking at the size of it, it will last me well past the end of January 😹 (but not August, hopefully).

I loved Tokyo Ueno Station, so have high hopes for this, a generation-spanning exploration of nationhood, family, and what it is to be Korean in Japan (Yu Miri herself is of Korean descent). And I believe marathon running figures prominently, so that's another plus. 😊

#JapaneseLiterature #YuMiri #TheEndOfAugust #MorganGiles #ReadingWithCats

The Japan TimesAug 8, 2023
In “The End of August,” the Akutagawa Prize-winning author excavates her own family history and traces multiple generations living under Japanese rule. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/08/06/books/yu-miri-end-of-august/?utm_content=buffer62a20&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #books #yumiri #theendofaugust #translation #morgangiles #wwii #southkoreajapanrelations
Yu Miri’s new book is a bleak, dizzying epic in colonized Korea

In “The End of August,” the Akutagawa Prize-winning author excavates her own family history and traces multiple generations living under Japanese rule.

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