The Gourmet Club
10 best books like The Gourmet Club (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki): Out, The Stars My Destination, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Points and Lines, The Absolute Sandman, Volume One, A Raisin in the Sun, The Pillow Book, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Scandal, Hôzuki
| Author | Natsuo Kirino |
| ISBN | 1400078377 |
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
The ringleader of this...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767800 |
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous...
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
| Author | Edogawa Rampo |
| ISBN | 0804803196 |
Edogowa Rampo--just say his pen name quickly three times to discover how much he loved Edgar Allen Poe--is considered the first and foremost writer of Japanese mystery fiction. He is also much more.
His stories, structured as popular "entertainments," are designed to convey all the...
| Author | Seichō Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 4770009372 |
This is my third Matsumoto and I'm beginning to see patterns emerging in his mystieries: he has an interest in Japanese government ministries; his sleuths solve mysteries through dogged perseverance; he has a fascination with train timetables; clues left in newspaper articles and on ticket stubs...
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401210821 |
One of the most popular and critically acclaimed comic book titles of all time,
New York Times
best-selling author Neil Gaiman's masterpiece
The Sandman
set new standards for mature, lyrical fantasy and graphic narrative. Now, Vertigo and DC Comics are proud to present the first of four definitive...
| Author | Lorraine Hansberry |
| ISBN | 0375508333 |
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations...
| Author | Sei Shōnagon |
| ISBN | 0231073372 |
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions.
Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile...
The Real Frank Zappa Book
| Author | Frank Zappa |
| ISBN | 0330316257 |
The first third of this book is really Zappa talking in a tongue in cheek manner about his career. Unfortunately, the second two thirds is more or less ranting about people he didn't like, his politics in the 80s (which I mostly agreed with but that is NOT why I wanted to read this book) and we do not learn much...
| Author | Shūsaku Endō |
| ISBN | 0396093205 |
Involves a famous Catholic writer whose comfortable life is shattered when a drunken woman crashes a reception in his honor, claiming that he frequents the red-light district of Tokyo and that his portrait is exhibited in a gallery there. The result: his reputation as a writer, his marriage, and his...
| Author | Aki Shimazaki |
| ISBN | 2330057164 |
3,5 estrellas.
Una historia sensible e intimista sobre la maternidad. O más bien la elección de ser madre. O de no serlo. O de cambiar de opinión sobre serlo.
Es un poco como una película de Koreeda, en el sentido de que no pasa mucho en la trama. Sin embargo, hay un trasfondo que va...
