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Before We Forget Kindness Review: The Uplifting Yet Painful Lessons on Love & Memory

Before We Forget Kindness Review

Before We Forget Kindness is the latest addition to the beloved Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Japanese author Toshikazu Kawaguchi, first published in English by Hanover Square Press … Read more

Before We Say Goodbye Review: Why This Time-Travel Novel Will Shatter Your Heart

Before We Say Goodbye Review

Before We Say Goodbye is the latest instalment in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally celebrated time-travel café series, translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. Published originally in Japanese and later brought … Read more

Why Before Your Memory Fades is the Most Devastating Book in the Series

Before Your Memory Fades review

Before Your Memory Fades (Japanese title: Yoi Ko Hi wa Saki ni Natte) is the third installment in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally beloved Before the Coffee Gets Cold series. First published … Read more

Why Tales from the Cafe is the Most Painfully Beautiful Book You’ll Read This Year

Tales from the Cafe review

Tales from the Cafe is the second instalment in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally acclaimed time-travel series, following the bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Originally published in Japanese as 続・コーヒーが冷めないうちに, it … Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold – The Japanese Novel That Fixes Life’s Biggest Regrets

Before the Coffee Gets Cold review

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, first published in Japanese in 2015 and translated into English by Geoffrey Trousselot in 2019. Originally adapted from Kawaguchi’s … Read more

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami – The Haunting Love Story You Can’t Forget

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, first published in 1999 in Japan and translated into English by Philip Gabriel in 2001, is one of the author’s most intimate, melancholic, and mysterious … Read more

Why Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is Murakami’s Most Underrated Masterpiece

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is a contemplative novel by Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2013 and later translated into English by Philip Gabriel in … Read more

South of the Border West of the Sun: The Untold Truth About Murakami’s Love Story

South of The Border West of The Sun by Haruki Murakami

South of the Border West of the Sun (Kokkyō no Minami, Taiyō no Nishi) is a poignant novel by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 1992 … Read more

Unmasking the Hidden Symbols in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle That Even Experts Missed

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious and intricately woven novels, first published in Japan in three volumes between 1994 and 1995, later combined and translated … Read more

The Mystery and Magic of 1Q84 — Why It’s Worth Every Page

1Q84 review 2025

When Haruki Murakami published 1Q84 in three volumes between 2009 and 2010 in Japan, it quickly became a literary sensation. The English translation, released in 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf … Read more

Why Kafka on the Shore Is Murakami’s Most Brilliant and Confusing Work

Kafka on the Shore Is Murakami’s Most Brilliant and Confusing Work?

Kafka on the Shore is a mesmerizing novel by the celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2002 by Shinchosha and later translated into English by Philip … Read more

Norwegian Wood Review 2025: Why Murakami’s Novel is Both Beautiful and Devastating

Norwegian Wood Review

Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 literary fiction and romance novel by Haruki Murakami, originally published in Japan by Kodansha. The first English translation was by Alfred … Read more

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