Blogs in August 2020

The Song of Kieu 16th August 2020

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...

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Sanshiro 16th August 2020

One of Soseki’s most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving ‘real world’ of Tokyo, its women and university. In...

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After Dark 16th August 2020

Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel,...

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A Kind of Freedom 16th August 2020

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Potiki 16th August 2020

A moving story of a Maori community’s fight for survival, from one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated authors On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land and the sea, a small...

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