#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Asking “Who Am I?” in Two Novels about Japanese Young Adults

Posted on by Avery Fischer Udagawa

Today’s post comes to you from Alison Fincher: Go and The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart were not necessarily written for a young adult audience. In fact, Go won Japan’s top award for popular fiction for adults, the Naoki Prize, and The Color of the Sky was short-listed for Japan’s … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Asking “Who Am I?” in Two Novels about Japanese Young Adults

Takami Nieda on Kaneshiro’s Zainichi Tour de Force “Go”

Posted on by David Jacobson

May GLLI Blog Series:  Japan in Translation, No. 29 Editor's note:  Though it took 18 years from publication in Japan until translation and publication in English, Kazuki Kaneshiro’s Go: A Coming of Age Novel, just released in March by AmazonCrossing, is already eliciting superlative reviews. Go's zainichi protagonist Sugihara is “one of the most memorable characters … Continue reading Takami Nieda on Kaneshiro’s Zainichi Tour de Force “Go”