A Man

I read this book after it was referred to me, and it was a great read. There is this unique style of storytelling which each culture has. In the case of Japanese books, what has stood out for me is the strength of the story. Rie has had a hard life – she lost her son Ryo tragically and is divorced.......more

Winner of the Yomiuri Prize for Literature 2019 Hirano won the Akutagawa Prize with his debut 日蝕 Nisshoku when he was still a law student, "A Man" is his first work to be translated into English and German (Das Leben eines Anderen, tr. by Nora Bierich). In it, he investigates how the future can chan......more

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | “It's unbearable to have your identity summed up by one thing and one thing only and for other people to have control over what that is.” Keiichirō Hirano has spun an intriguing psychological tale. A Man presents its readers with an in-depth and carefully paced mystery......more

Another book that I found by chance from the monthly Amazon Prime free book promotional email - and opened it as I am a fan of Japanese literature (though my interest in it comes and goes in waves) only to captivate me so much that I put down everything else I was reading/trying at the time. Not onl......more

Berührend, vielschichtig und unterhaltsam. Die Diskurse um Rassismus, Pogrome gegen Menschen mit koreanischen Wurzeln, Karoshi oder die Todesstrafe in Japan könnten alle etwas komplexer und weniger schulmeisterlich sein, das ändert aber nichts daran, dass ich mich gerne darauf eingelassen und auch v......more