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[6] In comparison to Yoshimoto's same-year debut, Kitchen, The Spectator called the book "a similarly slender work and one that casts a delicate spell." [7] ArtReview stated "Yoshimoto has always had this extraordinary ability to convey the ephemeral natures of her main characters in plain yet diaphanous language". [8]
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
The novel then went on to win the 70th Yomiuri Literary Prize. [1] In 2020, an English translation by Eli K. P. Williams was released by Amazon Crossing, marking Hirano's debut in the English language. [2] In 2022, the novel was adapted to film by director Kei Ishikawa and won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year.
A film based on the novel, The Discarnates, directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko, was released in 1988. The 2023 English-language film All of Us Strangers, directed by Andrew Haigh, is also based on the novel.
J-Novel Club is a publishing company specializing in the translation of Japanese light novels into English. It streams light novels and manga in regular installments before publishing finalized e-books. As of August 2021, J-Novel Club has licensed over 150 light novel and manga series and have published more than 800 e-books. [1]
Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature [1] and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Hole (Japanese: 穴, Hepburn: Ana) is a novel by Hiroko Oyamada. Originally published in 2014, it is Oyamada's second novel to be translated into English, after The Factory. [1] Translated by David Boyd, an Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [2] the novel was published in 2020 by New Directions ...