The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mizumura Minae's A True Novel.
This is just out (today !) from Other Press, who have really had a banner year in translation -- including several similarly sizable books, such as Where Tigers are at Home by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, one of this year's unfathomably overlooked titles (in the US -- in the UK it has been unfathomably overlooked since Dedalus brought it out in late 2011) which I once again commend to you. A True Novel is another 800-pager -- this one published in a two volume set in a slipcase. (I'm curious how the buying-public will react to the format; my personal preference remains the handier single-volume (and smaller sized -- the Japanese do it right) format.)
Definitely an interesting work (and a good read) -- and I'm curious whether the Wuthering Heights-variation sales tactic will pan out.
This is just out (today !) from Other Press, who have really had a banner year in translation -- including several similarly sizable books, such as Where Tigers are at Home by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, one of this year's unfathomably overlooked titles (in the US -- in the UK it has been unfathomably overlooked since Dedalus brought it out in late 2011) which I once again commend to you. A True Novel is another 800-pager -- this one published in a two volume set in a slipcase. (I'm curious how the buying-public will react to the format; my personal preference remains the handier single-volume (and smaller sized -- the Japanese do it right) format.)
Definitely an interesting work (and a good read) -- and I'm curious whether the Wuthering Heights-variation sales tactic will pan out.