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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]
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]
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]
Book 1 and Book 2 were both published on May 29, 2009; Book 3 was published on April 16, 2010. In English translation, Knopf published the novel in the United States in a single volume hardcover edition on October 25, 2011, and released a three volume paperback box-set on May 15, 2015.
The paper is also available in 250 locations in Japan, such as the Tokyo Ōte-machi branch of Books Kinokuniya. Seeking to expand its circulation, in 2013, the paper added an English section, which is primarily a translation of select articles from the previous week's edition.
In American English, they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines. This list includes both current and defunct businesses, and also includes large independent bookstores that have multiple locations, but that use a different business model than most business chains .
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.