Hey there I have recently started finding japanese and korean author's books quite intriguing because of mieko kawakami and han kang. Suggest more author's along with books of their you liked and why you like them. I really wanna get into these kinda books.
by CuriousPurrson
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**Sayaka Murata** –
Convenience Store Woman. I hated this book because I saw way too much of myself in it, but a lot of people love it.
Earthlings. I enjoyed this book a lot more and many people hate it. It needs a lot of trigger warnings.
Life Ceremony. Short stories in a similar vein to Earthlings.
**Natsuo Kirino** – Out. I loved this book so much, I spent 15 years tracking down my own copy. Finally got the last one in my country while I was working in a bookstore. Four women working night shift in a Bento factory help dispose of a body.
**Toshikazu Kawaguchi** – Before the coffee gets cold. Sad and cosy stories of people we miss, we love and what could’ve been.
**Michiko Aoyama** – What You Are Looking For Is in the Library. Cosy books about cats, libraries and people healing are always a joy for me.
**Choi Jin-young** – Hunger. More cannibalism but it was a quick, interesting read.
**Baek Sehee** – I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki. A memoir of the author’s therapy sessions.
**Sequoia Nagamatsu** – How high we go in the dark. A surreal, time-skipping story of a global pandemic. I’m re-reading this at the moment.
**Yoko Ogawa** –
The memory police. Dystopian story about things disappearing from memory.
Revenge : eleven dark tales. Exactly what it says on the cover.
**Katherine Tamiko Arguile** – The Things She Owned. A daughter sorts through her mother’s belongings and reflects on their relationship.
**Ryū Murakami** (the other Murakami) – In the miso soup. Graphic crime thriller.
**Min Jin Lee** – Pachinko. Epic Korean family saga about moving to Japan, facing racism, stereotypes and discrimination.
Also check out Banana Yoshimoto, Kyōko Nakajima, Mieko Kawakami, Cho Nam-Joo, Hwang Bo-Reum. I have them on my TBR but haven’t finished them yet.
Han Kang is wonderful, did you read Human Acts already? I like some of Yoko Tawada, Yoko Ogawa, and specific titles of Haruki Murakami too (“After Dark”, and “South of the border, West of the Sun”, and really “Norwegian Wood”, too). And of course Tsujimura.
I really like Hwang Sok-yong. It took me a bit to get into his style (Princess Bari, Familiar Things), but getting used to it, his work really sticks with me. Brutally real, yet also surreal and light, and magic realist, and I love his characters. I’m currently reading Mater 2-10, and am really loving that novel.