Parade: A Folktale by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell [in Booklist]
14 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW The presentation is exquisite: slightly smaller than a single hand, Hiromi Kawakami’s spare text is interrupted by Takako Yoshitomi’s delightful two-color illustrations of mostly geometric shapes with anthropomorphized additions. Subtitled “A Folktale,” these less-than-100 pages easily stand alone as a parable about memory, mythic...