Essential Japanese Literature You Need To Read

Essential Japanese Literature You Need To Read The Best Japanese Books You Must Read ChaptersSeventeen, by Kenzaburô  Ã"éKafka on the Shore, by Murakami HarukiThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Mishima YukioThe Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, by Shiba RyotaroA Midsummer's Equation, by Higashino KeigoMuch More to Discover...Japanese literature is rarely promoted during book fairs. When one thinks about foreign  literature, famous Japanse novelists rarely come to mind.American or European literature is often the bulk of the Foreign Novels books on the shelves of  your bookshop.Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy or Fyodor Dostoyevsky are probably the most read classic authors from their respective countries.Japan is better known  for  its unique form of short poems, the haiku or its comic books, the mangas.Yet Japan is the home of some of the best writers in the world, even though only 2 of them ever received a Nobel Prize.Japanese book on display in a bookshop, More and more bookstores stock Japanese novels and mangas (by UCCS Kraemer Family Library)But one of the good things, when you live outside Japan and want to read Japanese books, is that the Japanese language is so complicated and laborious to translate that publishers, in their infinite wisdom, will only translate the best of the best. So rest assured that whatever makes it to the shelves of your bookstore has been very carefully curated.If you want to learn more about Japan, or if you are planning a trip to the Land of The Rising Sun, or even if you want to learn Japanese, any of the Japanese books you will find in your bookshop will teach you about the uniqueness of the Japanese culture.It is even truer if you are looking to live in Japan for a while (or forever), that reading some of the Japanese literary classics will probably teach you more about the traditions and lifestyle of the country than any anime or manga will.Watching or reading Naruto won't teach you much about actual Japan.So we've selected a few of the best Ja panese novels just for you.If you want to read Japanese novels in the original text, why not take Japanese lessons online?Want to read Japanese books in the original language? Look for Japanese classes London on Superprof.