The Japan TimesDec 15, 2024
From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami
Women are writing a new chapter in Japanese literature in the 2020s

From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, a bounty of Japanese fiction in translation has delighted readers and critics this decade so far.

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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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Buffy LeighJan 21, 2023

Got a few book pre-orders in so I can forget about them and be surprised when they arrive. Usually most of my pre-orders are of fave authors, but these are all new to me. Any other #bookstodon folks have these on their list? Have other pre-order recommendations?

Tomb of Sand by #GeetanjaliShree, trans. by Daisy Rockwell (Jan 31) - feminist epic

Flux by #JinwooChong (Mar 21) - neo-noir/speculative fiction

The End of August by #YuMiri, trans. by Morgan Giles (Aug 1) - historical fiction/epic