The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nakamura Fuminori's The Thief.
A relatively recent Japanese work (2009 -- they usually take much longer to get translated), it won the 2010 Ōe Kenzaburō Prize (where Ōe is the final judge; hence this also comes with a blurb from the Nobel laureate) and turned out to be a nice little surprise. Nakamura -- born in 1977, so still fairly young -- has also already won an Akutagawa and a Noma, so I'm very curious to see some more of his work (this is the first of his novels to be translated into English).
A relatively recent Japanese work (2009 -- they usually take much longer to get translated), it won the 2010 Ōe Kenzaburō Prize (where Ōe is the final judge; hence this also comes with a blurb from the Nobel laureate) and turned out to be a nice little surprise. Nakamura -- born in 1977, so still fairly young -- has also already won an Akutagawa and a Noma, so I'm very curious to see some more of his work (this is the first of his novels to be translated into English).