Rereading Silence at the start of the year reminded me that there are a lot of books by Endo that I haven’t read. There’s quite a lot there hasn’t been translated, but I found a copy of The Final Martyrs in the library and decided to make that my first Endo Short Story read (I… Read More Book Review: The Final Martyrs by Endo Shusaku
I stumbled on this in the library but since I loved Galileo (which was based on his books), I decided that I had to read it. It’s been some time since I read Japanese fiction translated into English, but I think I’ve been missing out. Malice is a murder mystery about the murder of bestselling… Read More Book Review: Malice by Higashino Keigo
The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction is one of the library’s latest ebook acquisitions and hence featured in the “new arrivals” section. That section is also pretty prominent in the Overdrive app, which is how I found, and promptly downloaded, the book. It’s not The Tale of Genji, but I thought it might be interesting… Read More Book Review: The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction by William C Hedberg
I had this while reading the unabridged version of The Tale of Genji and it was honestly a lifesaver! I’m so glad I managed to find a copy of this and The Tale of Genji at the same time. The Reader’s Guide can be broken into three parts: Part 1 is titled The World of… Read More The Tale of Genji: A Reader’s Guide by William J. Puette
I have finally read the unabridged version! It took quite a while to find, but I finally got a library copy of the Arthur Waley translation. I couldn’t decide which translation to buy, or even if I wanted an unabridged translation to keep so I went for whatever the library had first. The Waley translation… Read More The Tale of Genji (Unabridged Version) translated by Arthur Waley
With this, I finish recapping the noteworthy and sharable parts of my Singapore trip, and can move on to the things that have been happening recently. Hopefully I finish that by Wednesday, so expect posts tomorrow as well! Anyway, when I was still in Singapore, I managed to go to two exhibitions at the central… Read More NLB Exhibitions