Kenzaburō Ōe’s A Personal Matter: a disturbing writing about a father’s struggles to come to terms with his newborn’s disability
#KenzaburoOe #GrovePress #fiction #disability #family #tradition #culture #society #life #parenting #JapaneseLiterature
Trick by Domenico Starnone: a story about perpective and vulnerability told through interaction between a grandfather and his four-year-old grandson
#DomenicoStarnone #books #fiction #ContemporaryFiction #family #emotions #vulnerability #EdituraLitera #EuropaEditions #perspective #PhysicalHealth #age
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata: a novel about social pressure, convenience and peculiar ways of finding happiness
#books #fiction #SayakaMurata #PortobelloBooks #society #SocialPressure #happiness #culture
Crudo by Olivia Laing: an experimental novel about identity, love and the chaotic 2017, a year when the world seemed to fall apart
#OliviaLaing #KathyAcker #Picador #novel #books #love #identity #politics #society #culture #life #aging #marriage
The White Book by Han Kang: author’s meditation on fragility of life, loss and colour white
#HanKang #PortobelloBooks #white #family #loss #life #history #meditation
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang: a tender story about dreams, parental love and the journeys we make in life to achieve happiness
#SunMiHwnag #family #ParentalLove #Motherhood #Freedom #choice #race #adoption #OneworldPublications #KoreanLiterature
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin: a controversial novel about passion, love, shame and bisexuality
#JamesBaldwin #LGBT #sexuality #PenguinBooks #Homosexuality #bisexuality #romance #emotions #happiness
The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago: a thoughtful allegory on human existence and the significance of being a dreamer
#JoseSaramago #NobelPrize #PeterSis #Harcourt #dreams #courage #love
George Orwell’s Animal Farm, stunningly illustrated by Ralph Steadman: a great allegory on how dictatorship, propaganda and political injustice work
#GeorgeOrwell #RalphSteadman #allegory #SeckerAndWarburg #propaganda #injustice #dictatorship #classics
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway: a wonderful fable on human courage, persistence and hope
#ErnestHemingway #Classics #Vintage #emotions #courage #nature #marlin #fishing
After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima: a portrait of a marriage through domestic and political aspirations in a post-war Japan
#YukioMishima #Vintage #Humanitas #marriage #Politics #ambitions #dreams
The Guest Cat By Takashi Hiraide: a meditation on the unexpected turns of life, a poetic definition of nature, ephemerality and true possessions
#TakashiHiraide #Picador #JapaneseLiterature #life #loss #pets #cats #ephemerality #joy
An unusual alphabet book – Gertrude Stein’s To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays
#GertrudeStein #YaleUniversityPress #GisellePotter #ABC #modernliterature