Books / Reviews | ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES Feb 25, 2017
'A Dark Night's Passing': Naoya Shiga sounds the depths of rootlessness
by Iain Maloney
It takes a brave writer to make their main character as unlikeable as Kensaku Tokito. It is even more startling because Naoya Shiga was consciously writing within the 'I' novel tradition, where the author deliberately draws on their life story for source material. A Dark ...