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A Japanese literature starter shelf

Seven books, seven very different Japans - with translators doing as much quiet work as the authors. A gentle way in past the one Murakami novel everyone's already read.

Kafka on the Shore
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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If Butter left you hungry and unsettled

Food as control, obsession, and quiet rebellion - and the particular loneliness of being a woman expected to perform appetite instead of have one.

Diary of a Void
Sweet Bean Paste
Breasts and Eggs
Milk Fed

When you get into translated Japanese novels

They’re just so relaxing. Well most of them, haha:D

Tales from the Cafe
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Strange Weather in Tokyo
The Tatami Galaxy

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