Excited to share that Giramondo Publishing with be publishing my translation of Xi Xi's 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 for the Australia & New Zealand market. Available July 2024
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upcoming book releases that caught my interest ✨📚

🤰🏻 📚 Découvrez le roman JOURNAL D'UN VIDE d'Emi Yagi, la chronique drôle et impitoyable d'une office lady qui s'invente une grossesse pour éviter le surmenage au travail ! Retrouvez le coup de cœur culture de notre newsletter 👉 bit.ly/journal-vide

We love EditionsCalmann-Lévy's beautiful cover by illustrator HifuMiyo for their French edition of Masateru Konishi's MY GRANDFATHER, THE MASTER DETECTIVE!

Translated by Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon, LES HISTOIRES DE KAEDE is available in French bookstores now!

What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama is a fabulous book highlighting the importance of libraries ❤️

You can read my review here:
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Out now!

The lovely special Kinokuniya edition of Nanae Aoyama's A PERFECT DAY TO BE ALONE (MacLehose Press, tr. Jesse Kirkwood) - with elegant sprayed edges and a bonus short story from the author! 🪻

#ひとり日和 / 河出書房新社 文藝🌸夏季号発売🍀

Thank you Serpent's Tail for these copies of #Tongueless ! Huge thanks to Yan Ge Jeremy Tiang & Kit Fan for the generous blurbs. This book wouldn't have been possible without Leon Craig & New River Literary Agency Li Kangqin. On sale in the UK 6/6! serpentstail.com/work/tongueles…

Now reading: Diary Of A Void by Emi Yagi translated from Japanese by David Boyd & Lucy North. I haven't read much yet, but I am already captivated by the narrator. #amreading

Now reading Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks, a collection of three stories by Natsuko Imamura, translated by my pal Lucy North Lucy North

I really enjoyed The Woman in the Purple Skirt by the same writer/translator combo.

Excellent so far.

Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of Myrto Kalavrezou - Nanae Aoyama's A Perfect Day to be Alive (transl Jesse Kirkwood), a delightful coming-of-age story which I've already read and loved. Coming from MacLehose Press next month

𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠, '[a] gripping psychological thriller steeped in the current political tensions in Hong Kong', by Lau Yee-Wa and translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley (Jennifer Feeley), will be published by Feminist Press on 11 June 2024. feministpress.org/books-n-z/tong…

Cercavo di trovare le parole, prima, senza riuscirci, però poi apro un libro e le parole arrivano, e grazie.

(Da Emi Yagi, Il diario geniale della signorina Shibata)

'A taut, chilling novel about the weaponization of language as a tool of oppression.'

Woohoo! A starred Kirkus Reviews review for Lau Yee-Wa's TONGUELESS, translated by Jennifer Feeley 🌟⭐️🌟 tinyurl.com/mryp22vs

We're so looking forward to seeing Lucy North's English translation of the delightfully named ASA: THE GIRL WHO TURNED INTO A PAIR OF CHOPSTICKS by Natsuko Imamura.

Coming from Faber Books this June!

Advance proofs of the startling first collection of stories from Natsuko Imamura are catching our eye today 👀

Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks is translated from the Japanese by Lucy North and out in paperback this June. Cover design by Robbie Porter.

'What you're looking for is in the library' by Michiko Aoyama is an inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book. Get your hands on it today: amzn.in/d/egxvY0Y

Bonsoir à tous !

On se retrouve pour parler du one-shot Le Chien qui voulait voir le Sud chez Éditions Akata !

Partons à l'aventure aux côtés de ce chien au coeur d'un Japon détruit, en reconstruction, avec un objectif : aller au Sud !

村上たかし漫画家 x Seishu Hase

Book Review: A clever subversion which challenges societal & gender norms - Emi Yagi’s novel reviewed by Aditi Yadav, is now available on our website usawa.in/issue-10/book-…

#bookreview #usawaliteraryreview #usawameansequality

En instagram voy a ser un poco más activa pero quiero compartir hoy #8M uno de mis libros favoritos de la literatura japonesa contemporánea: Diario de un vacío de Emi Yagi. La maternidad es uno de los temas centrales y la queja de una de las madres es increíble

'an ode to the magical power of recommendations...and the serendipity of life’s big transformations'

We loved this heartfelt review in VOGUE India of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY by Michiko Aoyama (@DoubledayUK / tr. Alison Watts) 💙 Thank you utkarsh !!