People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami — curiously bizarre
People From My Neighbourhood was a perplexing reading experience. Hiromi Kawakami delivers a collection of 36 stories featuring the people
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata — pressure to conform
You don’t have to look very hard in Tokyo to find the kind of shop featured in Convenience Store Woman.
Read MoreHeaven by Mieko Kawakami — how to survive in a cruel world 
Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven is compelling and disturbing in equal measures. The issue is
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa – a world without memory
The Memory Police qualifies as the most unsettling novel I’ve read this year. The last book I’d read by Yogo
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It’s Time For The Japanese Literature Challenge
It’s been a few years since I joined the Japanese Literature Challenge hosted by Meredith at DolceBezzellla.net. It just so happens that
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