Asako Yuzuki

Dec 2, 2024 | inkl.com | Percival L. Everett |Asako Yuzuki |Lili Anolik |Harriet Baker

Our guide to the books you’ll want to give as gifts this Christmas - (The Independent)Books are the best kind of Christmas present, and we don’t want to argue about it. When you give someone you love an unputdownable novel, a juicy biography, a captivating history book or a set of letters or poems, what you are also giving is hours and hours of pleasure. That’s why five of us writers are sharing our top five suggestions for great books to give as gifts this Christmas.

Aug 18, 2024 | dawn.com | Kaveh Akbar |Asako Yuzuki |Percival L. Everett

How do we make meaning out of death, especially when it is violent and senseless? This question preoccupies Cyrus Shams, the protagonist of Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, Martyr!. Cyrus is trying to make sense of the death of his mother, Roya, in an aeroplane shot down by US military forces over the Persian Gulf.

Aug 9, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Asako Yuzuki

. Apr. 2024. 17:12 hrs. ISBN 9780063236431. $16.95. F COPY ISBN A journalist and a convicted serial killer form an obsessive relationship based on food and secrets. The killer, Manako Kajii, baffles the nation because she’s “not attractive” but was able to lure multiple men via her cooking. Though Kajii refuses contact with others, she and journalist Rika Machida develop a bond.

Jun 7, 2024 | thetimes.com | Asako Yuzuki

It’s three o’clock in the morning and the flunkey appears, gripping a phone. Bad news, of course. Apparently, North Korea has launched a nuclear attack on the West. What to do next? Read a book. Or rather, speed-read since the countdown has already begun. Annie Jacobsen’s newly published, masterly work Nuclear War is what you need, prime minister. The publicity people are calling it a “compulsive non-fiction thriller”, but don’t let that put you off.

Jun 6, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Asako Yuzuki

Translated by Polly Barton, Asako Yuzuki's first novel out of 23 to be translated into English is loosely inspired by the real-life incident of the Konkatsu Killer, Kanae Kijima Malini Banerjee Published 07.06.24, 08:23 AM BUTTER By Asako Yuzuki Fourth Estate, Rs 599 If fat is a flavour, Butter, by the prolific Japanese author, Asako Yuzuki, is a veritable gourmet banquet.