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Exciting translations and books about Japan to bookmark for 2022

From Yoko Tawada’s “Scattered All Over the Earth” to Sayaka Murata’s “Life Ceremony,” this year’s new releases are sure to brighten up your 2022.

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Lady Joker: Volume One : A crime thriller opus weighty first half

Jul 11, 2021 “Lady Joker” by Kaoru Takamura was published in Japanese in 1997, but its English-language debut in 2021 still feels timely. On the surface, this classic of contemporary Japanese fiction twice adapted for the screen is a crime thriller, but underneath it’s a state-of-the-nation novel that is perhaps even more apposite today than 24 years ago. Lady Joker: Volume One, by Kaoru Takamura Translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell 600 pages SOHO CRIME The book centers on the kidnapping of the head of a fictional beer company, Hinode, by a mismatched gang of amateur corporate extortionists. The kidnapping, however, is almost beside the point. The first half of this 600-page tome the first volume of a two-part opus is given over to introducing the criminals and watching them mastermind their plan. The second half pivots to the kidnapping and shows readers its aftermath from the perspective of the police and reporters. In other words, there i

¿No tenés nada para leer? Estas seis lecturas son ideales para esperar los fríos más intensos

¿No tenés nada para leer? Estas seis lecturas son ideales para esperar los fríos más intensos De Kazuo Ishiguro a María Esther Gilio, un repaso por algunos de los libros que nos dejó el mes de junio Recomendados de junio . Fernanda Melchor. Sin embargo, con apenas un puñado de libros publicados entre ellos el recomendadísimo Temporada de huracanes (2017), finalista del prestigioso Booker Prize , se ha convertido en una de las firmas obligadas de la literatura latinoamericana del momento, incluso si leer sus historias implica bajar a abismos insondables de violencia y oscuridad. En Páradais (Literatura Random House, $ 490), su última novela, Melchor presenta la historia de Polo y Franco, dos adolescentes mexicanos que viven en una especie de complejo privado lujoso y en el que pasan las noches maquinando sobre el futuro y cavilando sobre algunas obsesiones que rayan lo perturbador. La trama se disparará con un plan bastante macabro que los incluye, pero de fondo as

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