Nov
29
by Nakano Hitori
Translated by Bonnie Elliott.
(4/5)
Fiction / Biography (Train Man is supposedly based on true internet chat forum conversations)
First Published in 2004
Publisher: Del Ray Books (USA), Shinchosha (Japan)
Set in: present day Japan
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Book cover synopsis:
“The story of the Train man who fell in love with the girl, Hermes.
The best selling internet-generation love story from Japan.’
Train Man is lifted directly from Japan’s 2-Channel chat forum, the world’s largest message board and the most popular website in Japan, handling a million posts every day.
On the web you can say what you feel and be who you want, no strings attached. But sometimes the web escapes into reality and the truth becomes more amazing than fiction.
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Posted in Adult Fiction, Biography Biography contemporary fiction Internet Japan Light Reading Love Story Teenage
Nov
27
by Khaled Hosseini
(5/5)
Fiction
First Published in 2003
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Set in: Afghanistan, USA
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Book Cover Synopsis:
Over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, and published in 42 different languages.
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant, is a Hazara, a member of the ethnically shunned minority. Their intwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave behind the memory of Hassan behind him. Read more... (369 words, 7 images, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)
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