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With our unique bimonthly book box, you will discover the best literary fiction from around the world. Our book boxes offers the easiest way to experience literary classics & the best of contemporary fiction. So, if you’re ready to read the most diverse & captivating literary works on earth, sign up for our bimonthly book subscription box. Scroll down for Book Box FAQs!
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Each August Book Box includes:
- Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
- To Live by Yu Hua
- Description
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- About the Books
Mina's Matchbook is one of the most anticipated releases of this year, with pre-publication reviews unanimously raving about Yoko Ogawa's latest.
From Penguin "...Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time—and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse...
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home", as well as its inhabitants, lure Tomoke in instantly. None more so than Mina, "a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling."
Yu Hua's To Live was originally banned in China but later named one of its ten most influential books in the last century. It was also adapted for the screen by Zhang Yimou, who read all of the book (then in serial form) in one night and resolved to make it into a film. Michael Barry was twenty-two and a senior at Rutgers University when he faxed Yu Hua for permission to translate his masterpiece. This "Chinese Book of Job", as Wang Ping calls it, has had an impact on millions since its publication.From Vintage Books: "After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. Left with an ox as the companion of his final years, Fugui stands as a model of gritty authenticity, buoyed by his appreciation for life in this narrative of humbling power." - About the Authors
Yoko Ogawa has probably won every major literary award in Japan. She is a recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and American Book Award. When her novel The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker, her work reached a wider audience, who could draw eerie parallels between the world of the novel and the lockdown they were living through.
Yoko Ogawa quit her job as a secretary as a medical university when she got married. Writing started as a hobby while her husband was at work. In fact, her husband only knew she was a writer when The Breaking of the Butterfly, her debut novel, won a literary prize. She won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for the novella Pregnancy Diary. She has published more than fifty books, much of which is yet to be translated into English. Therefore, it is truly a privilege that we are able to include her latest work to be translated into English in the Book Box.
Yu Hua is a forerunner in avant-garde fiction. In 2002, he became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. He counts Kafka, Borges, Toni Morrison, Yasunari Kawabata, among others, as his influences.Yu Hua was born in 1960, graduated high school during the Cultural Revolution, and worked as a dentist for five years before giving it up to follow his true calling: writing. His published works include five novels, six collections of stories, and three anthologies of his essays. Yu Hua's personal life was deeply impacted by the changing eras he has lived through, which is reflected in his writing (tellingly, he credits Kawabata for making him realize that the point of writing was to show human emotions). - How it Works
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