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The Silent Parade [Detective Galileo 4] by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray [in Booklist]

26 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

As the third narrator of Keigo Higashino’s internationally bestselling Detective Galileo series (four volumes available Stateside thus far), David Shih is also the first (finally!) to be facile with Japanese names and places. Although the Taiwanese American actor speaks only English, his conscientiously researched, accurate...

Newcomer [Detective Kaga series] by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray [in Booklist]

03 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

P.J. Ochlan returns to voice the internationally bestselling Japanese author’s latest to arrive Stateside. Previously the voice of Detective Galileo in another series by Keigo Higashino, Ochlan assumes the second of the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series following Malice in 2014. With Higashino’s signature vast casts, Ochlan’s...

Soul Cage [Reiko Himekawa, Book 2] by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray [in Library Journal]

09 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

Narrator Emily Woo Zeller went solo in The Silent Dead, which introduced Anglophone readers to Tokyo Metropolitan Police lieutenant Reiko Himekawa in her 2016 debut (smoothly rendered by Giles Murray who consistently translates again here); in Honda's sophomore series title, Zeller has company. Feodor Chin...

14 Japanese Thrillers in Translation [in The Booklist Reader]

31 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Lists, Repost, Translation

Mysteries and thrillers make up a sizable portion of the Japanese literary market. Thanks to the international success of Keigo Higashino, Natsuo Kirino, and Miyuki Miyabe – and, just as importantly, their translators – contemporary Japanese crime fiction proliferates on Western shelves. Below is a list...

The Silent Dead [Reiko Himekawa, Book 1] by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray [in Library Journal]

23 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Already the star of an ongoing, bestselling series in Japan (on both page and screen), Det. Reiko Himekawa makes her English-translation debut, outsmarting her arrogant male colleagues by listening to the dead. At 29, Reiko is young to be a lieutenant in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's...

Gush by Yo Hemmi, translated by Giles Murray [in Library Journal]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

If the eponymous story of this three-novella collection by prestigious Akutagawa Prize winner Hemmi seems familiar, that's because both Cannes and Toronto film festivals screened the celluloid version in 2001 with a more literal translation of the Japanese title, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge,...

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