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I'm currently researching a story reading list for a Japanese literature project, and this often recommended book by Donald Keene is proving invaluable.
The book's cover quotes that the material covered inside is up to the 'present day', but this is a 1956 edition and the final story only brings the date up to 1949. At this time that's perfect for what I'm working on, and I've other resources I can dive into when I want to bring my research on Japanese literature right up to date, including my precious readers.
So 'precious readers' what are your favourite stories in 'modern' Japanese literature?
In the Reading Room of the Grand Peoples’ Study House on Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang. The tour guide explained that the Great Leader himself designed the desks: “He worked tirelessly for the greater good of our Korean people.”
Participants were treated to prizes, refreshments and a movie at the Taunus Theater during the Wiesbaden Library's Summer Reading Program Grand Finale on Aug. 17, 2019.
(Photos by Karl Weisel)
This is the 43rd picture in my series of Shhh, I'm Reading. Here a young man is engrossed in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Perhaps.
Agnes and Stephen Reading, who endow 10 nursing student scholarships annually through a donation to the WCC Foundation, received a tour of the program's lab and simulation technology.
Books I want to read by the end of the year. I won 'New Moon' in a raffle and reluctantly bought 'Twilight,' but I figure it goes along with my graduate research into young adult literature. 'Jesus Land' and 'Inheritance' aren't on my grad school reading list; just books I thought would be good reads.
Books shown (bottom to top):
- Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer