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Keep hold of what you love…

Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami

November 6, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Someone travels through the night in a place where anything can and apparently will happen, a sister mourns her older brother who disappeared shortly before his wedding, and a woman steps on a snake which then moves in with her. This is a collection of three surrealistic novellas that are loosely connected by the themes of love and loss. Reading this is a real experience, it’s going through the rabbit hole and just having to roll with anything that happens afterwards. The first story is the most extreme; it is a dreamscape, filled with rich imagery and fantastic happenings like […]

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11/6/2019 | blauracke's CBR11 Review No: 56 |
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You know what I mean? Mr. Nakano had a habit of saying this.

The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

April 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So I had never heard of this author going into these two books, and I can’t say I know a lot about her now, since for the most part, these are the only two novels that I’ve seen have been translated. I was recently on vacation and took The Nakano Thrift Shop with me, having found it in a Little Free Library, and it was kind of a perfect novel to read on the train. But then when we got to the vacation apartment, and fearing that I was going to run out of books to read, I saw that […]

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4/7/2019 | vel veeter's CBR11 Review No: 179 |
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Life is a long quiet river…

La brocante Nakano (The Nakano Thrift Shop) by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Elisabeth Suetsugu)

January 27, 2019 by pluiedenovembre Leave a Comment

This is the second book by Hiromi Kawakami I have read and even though I don’t remember many details about the first one, it apparently was enjoyable enough that I bought three other books by her… I hope the other two are more to my liking because this one was a struggle. I enjoyed the writing. The story was very slow but that doesn’t bother me as a rule. I just found every single character to be extremely uninteresting. Even the not particularly nice ones. They were all uninteresting. I’m going to try to tell you a little bit about […]

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1/27/2019 | pluiedenovembre's CBR11 Review No: 7 |
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