Search Results for ‘Japan’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 7 matches found

A Ride in the Neon Sun

“A Ride In The Sun” is a wonderfully fresh insight into Japan and Japanese society through the immediacy and humour of Josie Dew. It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities...

The Sun in my Eyes

Armed only with a bike and great sense of humour, “The Sun In My Eyes” sees Josie Dew return to Japan for a second dose of its eccentric and mysterious culture.
Japan is a land of contradictions; where...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is another collection of beautiful stories from the lyrically unconventional imagination of Haruki Murakami. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well...

Lost Japan

Alex Kerr’s “Lost Japan” won Japan’s Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize in 1994, an award given for the best non-fiction work published in Japan; originally written in Japanese, this honest and personal...

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

In Haruki Murakami's increasingly surreal canon of work, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is probably his most popular and widely read text. It resonates with contemporary Japan, exploring responsibility...

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha"is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic...

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood stands with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle as one of Haruki Muarakami’s best and most popular works. As usual, it deals with the world around us with a sense of melancholy, charm, loss- all...