Japanese Literature

Former member and current Starling Bureau contributor, Morgan Giles, brings us some of her favourite untranslated literature from Japan.

Read more about Morgan and her special picks below.

Konpira by Yoriko Shōno

An anarchic, stylish romp trampling over Japan’s canonical foundational myths. Defining her work as ‘avant-pop’, Shōno writes lucidly and poetically in a way that makes the strange seem perfectly reasonable, slipping her characters into languid dream worlds before taking them on a detour into slapstick humor and rampant paranoia, reminiscent of Calvino or Pynchon.