Books by Alfred Birnbaum (translator)
“There are loan sharks, there’s credit card debt and bankruptcy, there’s identity theft. It’s a mystery story about capitalism and the bubble economy. It’s easy to think that if you get into debt, it’s your own fault, it’s a personal matter. This book makes us deliberate a moment and scrutinizes this matter from different perspective. It’s saying, ‘It’s not the fault of individuals, it’s the market.'” Read more...
Interviews where books by Alfred Birnbaum (translator) were recommended
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Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
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The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder -
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All She Was Worth
by Alfred Birnbaum (translator) & Miyuki Miyabe -
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami -
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami -
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
Books By Japanese Authors
Books By Japanese Authors
Japanese literature has always performed strongly on Five Books, so we’ve put together an overview of some of the books on our site by Japanese authors that have previously been recommended by our expert interviewees—from contemporary novels shortlisted for the International Booker Prize to classic works of literature, and everything in between.
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Beast in the Shadows
by Edogawa Rampo & Ian Hughes (translator) -
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The Inugami Curse
by Seishi Yokomizo & Yumiko Yamazaki (translator) -
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Points and Lines
by Paul C. Blum and Makiko Yamamoto (translators) & Seicho Matsumoto -
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
by Ross and Shika Mackenzie (translators) & Soji Shimada -
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All She Was Worth
by Alfred Birnbaum (translator) & Miyuki Miyabe
Best Classic Japanese Mysteries, recommended by On Nomoto
Best Classic Japanese Mysteries, recommended by On Nomoto
Crime novels are hugely popular in Japan, but English translations of Japanese mysteries not always easy to come by. As Pushkin Vertigo publishes translations of two novels by Seishi Yokomizo, one of Japan’s most famous mystery writers, his grandson, On Nomoto, talks us through the best classic Japanese mysteries of the last century.
