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Black Flower

Black Flower (2003) – KIM Young-ha

January 8, 2013by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

It’s safe to say that, by far, this was the novel I was most looking forward to reading when the Man Asian Literary Prize longlist was announced. A fan of […]

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Kim Young-ha, 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
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
Dream of Ding Village

Dream of Ding Village (2005) – YAN Lianke

December 1, 2011by Matthew Todd 21 Comments

I’m posting this today, as opposed to a usual Tuesday post, because today is World AIDS Day. It’s funny that most of the literature translated from Chinese for the West […]

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SMALP2011, Yan Lianke
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
The Skating Rink

The Skating Rink (1993) – Roberto BOLAÑO

November 15, 2011by Matthew Todd 7 Comments

I’m still working my way through Bolaño’s backlist, so that when I do get around to reading 2666, I will be well and truly prepared. The Skating Rink is his […]

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Bolaño Roberto
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) – Junot DÍAZ

October 25, 2011by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

One of the things I love about second-hand bookstores is that you can find things for cheap that you might have been unsure about buying. The Brief Wondrous Life of […]

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Díaz Junot
The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot (2011) – Jeffrey EUGENIDES

October 18, 2011by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

Jeffrey Eugenides’ previous novel, Middlesex, rightly won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 – it’s an excellent novel, and you should all check it out if you haven’t already. But that […]

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Eugenides Jeffrey
The Monsoon Bride

The Monsoon Bride (2011) – Michelle Aung THIN

September 6, 2011by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

One of the many benefits of working at a bookstore is that publishers send us ARCs (advance reading copies) of books for us staff to read, so we know what’s […]

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Thin Michelle Aung
Sarah Thornhill

Sarah Thornhill (2011) – Kate GRENVILLE

August 30, 2011by Matthew Todd 1 Comment

Kate Grenville’s follow-up to The Secret River and The Lieutenant has no doubt been anticipated by many people, though it appears to have been released to not a great deal […]

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Grenville Kate

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