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‘Granta 127: Japan’, ed. Yuka Igarashi (Review)
As much as I love good writing, literary magazines are a fairly unknown quantity for me (virtually all of my reading is good old-fashioned books, preferably novels). However, I’m always open to new...
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‘Convenience Store Woman’ by Sayaka Murata (Review)
Portobello Books have already had success with Japanese fiction in the form of Hiromi Kawakami’s novels Strange Weather in Tokyo (AKA The Briefcase) and The Nakano Thrift Shop, and that trend looks set...
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‘Earthlings’ by Sayaka Murata (Review)
Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman was one of the biggest hits in translated fiction over the past few years, so it’s no surprise that Granta Books picked up another of the writer’s novels, with...
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‘Life Ceremony’ by Sayaka Murata (Review)
It’s August again, and we all know what that means: Women in Translation Month! #WITMonth was started back in 2014 by Meytal Radzinski, of the Biblibio blog, and the aim is to spread the word about...
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