7 Award-Winning Books by Japanese Authors You Should Read
1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. The events of 1Q84 take place in Tokyo during a fictionalized year of 1984. The book opens with a female character named Aomame as she catches a taxi in Tokyo on her way to a work assignment.
2. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is a pretty good insight into a disciplined mind and professional samurai from 17th century Japan. A lot of it is practical advice and there is some spiritual Zen leaning in there too.
3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. The story takes place in Tokyo, Japan, during the 1980s. There are several flashbacks, however, to the war between Japan and Korea, a time when Japan took control of the Korean peninsula in the early part of the twentieth century.
4. The Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the story of a fictional geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before and after World War II.
5. No Longer Human Osamu Dazai is told in the form of notebooks left by one Ōba Yōzō (大庭葉蔵), a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who is instead forced to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity.
6. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. The tender feelgood story of a man’s journey around Japan with a streetcat.
7. I am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki. I Am a Cat satirizes human beings from an innovative perspective – from the cat`s point of view! Natsume Soseki’s first novel, that has become a timeless story representative of the beginning of modern Japan, is now adapted into comic format!
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