#WorldKidLit Month: Four Japanese Novels About Relationships Suitable for Teen Readers

Posted on by Avery Fischer Udagawa

Today's post comes to you from Arthur Reiji Morris: The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita / Translated by Philip Gabriel (Black Swan Books, 2020)  The protagonist of The Forest of Wool and Steel is Toyama, a young man with an unconventional dream: to become a piano tuner. Of course, this isn’t the … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month: Four Japanese Novels About Relationships Suitable for Teen Readers

Me and My Monkey — by Roland Kelts

Posted on by David Jacobson

May GLLI Blog Series:  Japan in Translation, No. 27 Editor's note: Forget the old saw that English language readers won't read literature in translation. For the last seven years, Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan has been publishing an annual journal of what it calls "the best of contemporary Japanese literature" in English. The paperback editions of … Continue reading Me and My Monkey — by Roland Kelts