Wednesday, 31 October 2018

books for the reading diary - 2019


a brief glance at some titles bookmarked for 2019, more forthcoming -



January -

Murder in the Crooked House - Soji Shimada trans. Louise Heal Kawai - Pushkin Press
The Beauty of Everyday Things - Soetsu Yanagi trans. Michael Brase - Penguin Books
The Little House - Kyoko Nakajima, trans - Ginny Tapley Takemori - Darf Publishers
Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge - Kimura Yusuke trans. Doug Slaymaker - CUP

March -

Prefecture D - Hideo Yokoyama trans. Jonathan Lloyd Davies - Quercus

April -

Star - Yukio Mishima trans. Sam Bett - Penguin Classics
The Forest of Steel and Wool - Natsu Miyashita - trans. Philip Gabriel - Doubleday
The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima - trans. Andrew Clare - Penguin Classics

May -

Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster Rachel DiNitto HUP

June -

The Ten Loves of Nishino - Hiromi Kawakami trans. Alison Markin Powell - Europa Editions
Somehow, Crystal - Tanaka Yasuo trans.Christopher Smith  - Kurodahan Press

July -

Inhabitation - Teru Miyamoto trans. Roger K. Thomas - Counterpoint Press
Japanese Ghost Stories - Lafcadio Hearn - Penguin Classics

August -

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa Harvill/Secker
Life For Sale - Yukio Mishima trans Stephen Dodd - Penguin Classics

September -

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store - Keigo Higashino - Yen Press
Automatic Eve - Rokuro Inui trans. Matt Treyvaud - Haikasoru
Gold Mask - Edogawa Rampo trans. William Varteresian - Kurodahan Press

October -

The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada trans. David Boyd - New Directions
The Sheltering Rain - trans. Jim Hubbert - Kurodahan Press
Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets - Makoto Ooka trans. Janine Bachman Kurodahan Press

November -

Parade - Hiromi Kawakami - trans. Allison Markin Powell - Soft Skull Press
Travels With a Writing Brush - edited/trans. Meredith McKinney - Penguin Classics
The Refugee's Daughter - Ichikawa Takuji trans. Emily Balistrieri - Red Circle

December -

The Honjin Murders - Yokomizo Seishi tr. Louise Heal Kawai - Pushkin Press


3 comments:

Louise said...

Hi, thanks for your list of upcoming titles. I would like to ask you to make one correction: the translator of Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada to be released this month is me, Louise Heal Kawai, not Reid Sterling.

me. said...

Apologies!, corrected.

Louise said...

Thank you. Much appreciated.