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Confessions of a Mask (1949) – MISHIMA Yukio

January 19, 2013by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

I’ve been scouring my uni’s library for hard-to-find books in the last few weeks, since tomorrow, I will no longer live in the same city. I’ve been particularly interested in […]

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Mishima Yukio
Gold Rush

Gold Rush (1998) – YŪ Miri

January 5, 2013by Matthew Todd 9 Comments

I’ve read some of Yū’s work before, though mostly in Japanese, and mostly skimming through it for thesis preparation. So it was nice to find a whole novel in the library […]

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Yū Miri
The Face of Another

The Face of Another (1964) – ABE Kōbō

July 24, 2012by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

This is the third attempt I’ve made at reading The Face of Another (a clunky translation, but I can’t think of a better one, so I should probably shut up). […]

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Abe Kōbō
The Garden of Evening Mists

The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) – Tan Twan ENG

July 17, 2012by Matthew Todd 5 Comments

I read Tan’s first novel, The Gift of Rain, when it was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007, and loved it. The evocation of Malaysia after the Second World […]

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Eng Tan Twan, SMALP2012
springsnow

Spring Snow (1968) – Yukio MISHIMA

May 29, 2012by Matthew Todd 5 Comments

Though I can name a whole pile of contemporary Japanese authors, my experience of the modern classics remains woefully underdone. I’m trying to work my way through a lot of […]

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Mishima Yukio
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The Buddha in the Attic (2011) – Julie OTSUKA

April 24, 2012by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

The first chapter of The Buddha in the Attic was printed in Granta 114 (a seriously excellent collection, by the way), and the second in Granta 115. At the time, […]

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Otsuka Julie
hoteliris

Hotel Iris (1996) – Yoko OGAWA

March 13, 2012by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

I read Ogawa’s beautiful short novel, The Housekeeper and the Professor, last year, and have been passively searching for her other work since. Written almost ten years before that novel, […]

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Ogawa Yoko
The Broken Commandment

The Broken Commandment (1906) – Tōson SHIMAZAKI

December 20, 2011by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

Doing some research for my Honours project, I cam across this novel. To say it was hard to track down is an understatement – I’m pretty sure it’s out of […]

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Shimazaki Tōson
1Q84

1Q84 (2009) – Haruki MURAKAMI

December 13, 2011by Matthew Todd 38 Comments

I need to start this review with something of a caveat – for the most part, I don’t like the work of Haruki Murakami. His works tend to leave me […]

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Murakami Haruki, SMALP2011
The Lake

The Lake (2005) – Banana YOSHIMOTO

November 22, 2011by Matthew Todd 21 Comments

This is my first proper dip into the longlist of this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize – that’s quite exciting, isn’t it? I read Yoshimoto’s Kitchen a long, long time […]

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SMALP2011, Yoshimoto Banana

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