THE LIBRARY

Category: Japanese literature

Reviews and guides to Japanese fiction and literature in translation.

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By Mieko Kawakami

It’s one of Kawakami’s most emotionally sprawling works, and perhaps one of her bleakest.

By Natsuo Kirino

It reads less like a thriller and more like a slow psychological unraveling, one that reveals itself through subtle shifts in perception.