Welcome to America – by Linda Bostrom Knausgard

The story of Ellen, the 11-year old girl who stopped talking after her father died (because she felt guilty she … More

Sweet Days of Discipline – by Fleur Jaeggy

There’s writing that you just couldn’t get into. And there’s writing that hooked you the moment you started reading the … More

“I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The … More

In just 125 pages, Nothomb addressed many different social issues in this partly autobiographical, partly epistolary novel: the gorging of … More

In this slim novel, Kawakami tells the ins and outs of the daily operation of a second-hand shop, and her … More

This book contains two novellas, Kitchen and Moonlight Shadow. The two protagonists are both female college students suffering from the … More

From May 2018 to Apr 2019, the Japan Times ran a very informative and interesting “Works by Japanese Women” series … More

This novella is set in a dystopian Japan in an unknown future. Tokyo is not environmentally safe to live in … More

Yoko Ogawa’s writing topics are so diverse. The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) is a touching story of a professor … More