The Bookish Land | Japanese lit Recommendations 🇯🇵 From And About Asia Project | The Bookish Land 2022 [cc] @TheBookishLand | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 28 minutes ago.
[cc] August is the Japan month for From And About Asia Reading Project, I gathered a list of books that sounds interesting and intriguing. Let me know what do you think and if you have any books from Japan you want to recommend!

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◉ BOOKS MENTIONED

→ HEAVEN by Kawakami Mieko
translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
(Malice by Higashino Keigo)
(Breasts and Eggs by Kawakami Mieko)
(Ms Ice Sandwich by Kawakami Mieko)

→ AT THE END OF THE MATINEE by Hirano Keiichirou
translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

→ TOKYO UENO STATION by Yuu Miri
translated by Morgan Giles

→ THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN EASY JOB by Tsumura Kikuko
translated by Polly Barton

→ THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS by Natsukawa sousuke
translated by Louise Heal Kawai

→ LIFE FOR SALE by Mishima Yukio
translated by Stephen Dodd

→ THE LITTLE HOUSE by Nakajima kyouko
translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

→ THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER by Motoya Yukiko
translated by Asa Yoneda

→ THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES by Arikawa Hiro
translated by Philip Gabriel

→ THE MEMORY POLICE by Ogawa Youko
translated by Stephen Snyder

→ THE FACTORY by Oyamada Hiroko
translated by David Boyd

◉ TIME STAMPS
00:00 Japan month overview
02:23 HEAVEN
04:55 AT THE END OF THE MATINEE
05:44 TOKYO UENO STATION
06:40 THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN EASY JOB
07:40 THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS
08:32 LIFE FOR SALE
10:04 THE LITTLE HOUSE
11:31 THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER
12:32 THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES
13:15 THE MEMORY POLICE