I’m not sure if it was all the attention on Haruki Murakami in the lead-up to the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature (which in the end went to the wonderful Canadian story-teller, Alice Munro, more about that later) but I’ve been on a bit of a Japanese roll…
Man Asian literary prize shortlist announced,
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, one of my favoutie reads in 2012, is on the shortlist for the Man Asian literary prize which was announced this week. So too is Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil, a former addict who recreated the squalid yet intimate world of a…