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Headquarters in Meguro, Tokyo Books Kinokuniya Company in Shibuya, Tokyo Shinjuku Branch of Books Kinokuniya in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店, Kinokuniya Shoten) is a Japanese bookstore chain operated by Kinokuniya Company Ltd. (株式会社紀伊國屋書店, Kabushiki-gaisha Kinokuniya Shoten), founded in 1927, with its first store located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
The English translation of Strange Weather in Tokyo made it on several recommendation lists, including those published by The Guardian and NPR. [4] [5] The New York Times, in an article recommending 52 books for 52 places, recommended the novel for Tokyo. [6]
Alexandra Alter, writing for the New York Times, described What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, alongside books such as Before the Coffee Gets Cold as part of a genre called "healing fiction" popular in Japan and Korea. [8] NHK broadcast an audiodrama based on the book starring Toshiyuki Nishida and Keiko Takeshita in 2022. [9]
Osamu Matsubara (松原 治, Matsubara Osamu, October 7, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, business executive, and former chairman and CEO of Books Kinokuniya. [1] Matsubara was President of Kinokuniya Company Ltd., the parent company of Books Kinokuniya, from October 1980 to November 2002. [2]
The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."
Mizumura's family moved from Japan to the United States when she was 12. [6] Rather than focusing on improving her English language skills, she instead focused on improving her Japanese language skills by reading volumes from a collection of works of classic Japanese literature that her family had received as a gift from a relative. [10]
The book was reviewed by Chris Rutledge of Washington Independent Review of Books, [13] Karthik Keramalu of Firstpost, [14] Brendan Daly of Business Post, [15] Thu-Huong Ha of The Japan Times, [16] Nick Duerden of The i [17] and Paul Perry of Sunday Independent of Ireland. [18] Books Kinokuniya brought 90 percent of first print run of the book ...