Tag: book reviews
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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
My brief review of Kenji Nakagami’s noir masterpiece [Parts of this review were first published in an edition of Kansai Scene in 2002.] Kenji Nakagami is a writer whose work opens up a side of Japan usually well-hidden from the foreign eye. And for that matter, from many other Japanese people. He once said that…
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Promenade of Desire
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, Dec. 2022 under the title “Promenade of multitudes”] A really good book is a universe away from its marketing. One vibrant new piece of nonfiction, “Promenade of Desire, A Barcelona Memoir” is being promoted as “a sensual coming of age story: From Catholic virgin to Mata…
Brett Hetherington 