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ARCHIVED IN-PERSON EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima

Monday 14 February 2022 / 7:00pm
IN-PERSON EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima

Date
Monday 14 February 2022
Time
7.00pm

Venue
The Japan Society

13 / 14 Cornwall Terrace
London NW1 4QP

Booking Details
Free for Japan Society Members

Book available from AbeBooksAmazon, and Book Depository (*)

Please note this is an in-person event subject to Covid regulations and the health and safety requirements at the venue. More details will be provided to attendees closer to the date.

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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten aims to shine light on the undertones of wartime devastation affecting Tokyo even to this day. In this collection of ten stories written by award winning author Kyoko Nakajima, men and women are victims of cultural amnesia. These people are unaware of how haunted they are, be it by memories of war, tradition, or by spirits of their recent past. As stated by David Pearce, author of Tokyo Year Zero, this work is “a perfect introduction to the quiet, subtle brilliance of Kyoko Nakajima”. Translated by Ian MacDonald and Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Kyoko Nakajima was born in 1964 in Suginami, Tokyo. Once she graduated from university, for several years she worked as an editor in the publishing industry at a number of firms such as Cawaii!. By 2003 (having moved on from editing) she made her debut as an author with Futon and has continued to write alongside detailing her opinions on contemporary culture and politics for Mainichi Shimbun to the present day. Her 2010 novel The Little House received the 143rd Naoki literature prize.

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(*) The Japanese version of the short story 'Things Remembered and Things Forgotten' (おぼえていること、忘れてしまったこと) was first published in Granta Japan with 早稲田文学 01, Wasedabungaku, 2014; 'Global Positioning System' (全地球測位システム) first published in The Long Goodbye (長い別れ), Bungeishunju, 2015; 'Kirara's Paper Plane'(きららの紙飛行機)first published in Ghost(ゴースト), Asahi Shimbun, 2017; 'Childhood Friends'(おさななじみ) first published in Wonderful View(眺望絶佳), Kadokawa Bunko, 2012; 'The Last Obon'(最後のお盆)first published in Coming Of Age(冠・婚・葬.祭), Chikuma Shobo, 2016; 'When My Wife Was a Shiitake'(妻が椎茸だったころ)and'The Pet Civet'(ハクビシンを飼う) first published in When My Wife Was a Shiitake(妻が椎茸だったころ), Kodansha, 2013; 'The Life Story of a Sewing Machine'(ミシンの履歴) and 'The Harajuku House' (原宿の家) first published in Ghost(ゴースト), Asahi Shimbun, 2017; 'A Special Day'(今日はなんだか特別な日)first published in Wonderful View(眺望甜色圭), Kadokawa Bunko, 2012.

Booking Info

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