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Hallo, I would like to read "The Rope Artist " by Fuminori Nakamura (tr. Sam Bett).Ciao
Cool! That one came out in the US today!
Oh! I should like to nominate 69 (1987) - Ryū Murakami 
It's summer of 1969, and Kensuke Yazaki is seventeen and interested in everything: the Rolling Stones, Rimbaud, the Velvet Underground, French New Wave, Jimi Hendrix, political protest and Janis Joplin, all of which is happening in a long way away. But Kensuke and his friends are going to bring 1969 to their provincial Japanese city, start a dissident movement, barricade their school, make a film, stage a festival. Not for the sake of art or politics, for a much better reason, for the only real reason. To impress girls.
Murakami's uncharacteristically sweet, semi-autobiographical account of an exciting time to be an exciting age, Sixty-Nine is funny and affectionate, brimful of passion, and as irrepressible as the brilliant brazen smartass Kensuke himself.
I joined this group because I’m interested in Japanese literature. Unfortunately, I’m not very well versed on the subject so I feel conflicted in nominating something but I do want to participate.I’ll nominate A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s a book I bought when the Barnes and Noble by me closed.
Thanks! 😊
Yep, I feel the same way as Loretta. I'm pretty new to Japanese lit as well. However, here is my nomination: Schoolgirl by: Osamu Dazai
I would like to nominate Sweet Bean Paste byDurian Sukegawa
Makoto OokaBeneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets, Selected Poems
Translated by Janine Beichman
The devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
I'll second The Rope artist & A pale view of hills
Seconded; Schoolgirl by Dazai
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