I love Hiromi Kawakami, and this new book sounds great.
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Kawakami Hiromi’s “Snack Futari”: One Last Drink Before I Go | Nippon.com https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/bg900585/
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Dystopiaa? Utopiaa? Kuvitelmaa? Kertakaikkisen kumma maailma tästä kirjasta avautuu. Voinee paljastaa että tekoälykin on mainittu.
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Lukiessani Hiromi Kawakamin Sensein salkkua ajattelin, että on vähän kylmähköä ja ankeahkoa. Mutta jatkoin kuitenkin, vaikka vanhemmiten jätän kesken jos ei kiinnosta. Ja sitten aivan kirjan loppupuolella sen viehätys avautui minulle, tarkalleen ottaen siinä kohtaa kun pariskunta lopulta pääsi halailuvaiheeseen ja nainen nuuhki miehen takkia - se "tuoksui vaimeasti naftaliinille".
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Two Japanese translated books in this year's long list, Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Asa Yoneda) and Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (tr. Polly Barton).
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The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes
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From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami
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Hiromi Kawakami's novel draws from “The Tales of Ise" and “Takaoka’s Travels” to immerse readers in an intertextual exploration of who we are in and out of love. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/09/06/books/hiromi-kawakami-the-third-love/ #culture #books #hiromikawakami #tedgoossen #literature
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The author reimagines sexual reproduction, family ties and societal roles in a passionless world that is neither a dystopia nor an improvement on reality. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/09/03/books/eye-of-the-big-bird-hiromi-kawakami/ #culture #books #hiromikawakami #asayoneda
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A new (in English) Hiromi Kawakami book, one of my favourite authors. ❤️
The Third Love (三度目の恋), translated by Ted Goossen, is out today, and I had to go straight to our local bookshop and order it in! 😊 -
Now that the short story has been published in a new translation by Ted Goossen, as "Mole" in 川上弘美 Hiromi Kawakami's new collection Dragon Palace, I thought I should finally finish the Japanese version (called 鼴鼠) that I've been reading (or more accurately, been trying to read) for the last 6 months - it's no more than about 25 pages long 😂.
There's a great sentence and a great new (to me) word I just read:
東京の空いっぱいを覆いつくす、猛々しい夕焼け。(A raging sunset that occupies the entire sky over Tokyo.)猛々しい (たけだけしい) means raging or furious, and I love how it repeats the 猛 kanji, which by itself already means fierce, furious or wild, so 猛々しい is like rage or fury doubled 😁
#川上弘美 #HiromiKawakami #JapaneseLiterature #JapaneseLanguage #日本語 #日本語を勉強する #日本文学
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In her new collection of short stories, the author returns to a world of fluid transfiguration with dry matter-of-factness and knowing humor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/09/17/books/hiromi-kawakami-dragon-palace/?utm_content=buffer3050d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #books #hiromikawakami #dragonpalace #tedgoossen
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Ha, I just came across the footnote no. 7 in the short story 鼴鼠 (Mogera Wogura) by 川上弘美 (Hiromi Kawakami). I suffer from multiple levels of ignorance here - for a start I only knew that 朝顔 literally means morning face, rather than morning glory (the flower). And to go from that to urinal (because of the funnel shape of the flower)... 🤯
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Translated by Haydn Trowell, author Maru Ayase takes the reader into a surreal world to deal with a problematic issue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/08/12/books/maru-ayase-forest-brims-over/?utm_content=buffera52bb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #books #maruayase #arakinobuyoshi #hiromikawakami
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A new (or rather, newly translated) short story by Hiromi Kawakami in the New Yorker.
From "Dragon Palace", a new collection of her short stories translated by Ted Goossen, out in September.#JapaneseLiterature #HiromiKawakami
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/the-kitchen-god-fiction-hiromi-kawakami
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Starting my first 川上弘美 Hiromi Kawakami short story in Japanese, 鼴鼠 (called Mogera Wogura in English, although that's not a direct translation).
It's about 20 pages long, so I'll tell you what I think of it when I finish it in about a year 😁
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