The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kurahashi Yumiko's 1969 novel, The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q.
Yes, this does immediately qualify as one of the most obscure books under review: published in the impressive but apparently not very long-lived 'Asian and Pacific Writing'-series from the University of Queensland Press, this isn't a very easy to find title any more (and little else by Kurahashi has been translated -- though I expect to get to The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories soon, too (get your copy at Amazon.com).) (I'd love to see more from the series too -- the first volume was Achdiat K. Mihardja's Atheis, and that's obviously of particular interest.)
By the way: Kurahashi was an early -- indeed one of the very first -- foreign writers to attend the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, back in 1966. Speaks well for both the program, and her.
Yes, this does immediately qualify as one of the most obscure books under review: published in the impressive but apparently not very long-lived 'Asian and Pacific Writing'-series from the University of Queensland Press, this isn't a very easy to find title any more (and little else by Kurahashi has been translated -- though I expect to get to The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories soon, too (get your copy at Amazon.com).) (I'd love to see more from the series too -- the first volume was Achdiat K. Mihardja's Atheis, and that's obviously of particular interest.)
By the way: Kurahashi was an early -- indeed one of the very first -- foreign writers to attend the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, back in 1966. Speaks well for both the program, and her.