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'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light, streaming through the windows, so bright you have to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness; becoming unstable, untethered. As the…

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If there's one nation that loves its cats, it's... well, probably Ancient Egypt, but they're gone. So, now, it's Japan. Japan and cats go together like Murakami and Kafka. In Japanese culture and mythology, cats

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF 2023For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life.What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it.A restless retail assistant looks…

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Haruki Murakami is Japan's most celebrated modern author, but knowing where to start reading can be daunting. Here are five books to get you underway! #booklists #japaneseliterature #books #amreading #japan #murakami