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曹 文軒, 中 由美子
A novel about the meeting and everyday life of Bronze, a mute orphan boy, and Sunflower, a girl who joins his rural family. It renders the seasons and the details of village life with delicacy, quietly showing friendship and hope through poverty and family bonds.
イーヴリン・ウォー, 小山 太一
The first volume of Evelyn Waugh’s war trilogy follows Guy Crouchback as he enters military service during the Second World War. It mixes irony and humor with a bleak look at the absurdity of war and human relations.
Asako Serizawa
“Train to Harbin” is a short story set against modern East Asian history, where movement, memory, and family history intersect. As a key story in Inheritors, it shows how the shadow of history reaches into the present.
Eiko Kadono, Emily Balistrieri, Yuta Onoda
Thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home with her black cat Jiji and starts a flying delivery service in the seaside town of Koriko. Through mistakes, loneliness, and encounters with the townspeople, the story follows a year in which she grows independent not only as a witch but as a child finding her own way.
Robin Wasserman
A novel in which the lives of three women intersect through memory research, power, desire, and the long aftermath of abuse.
Gerald Horne
A historical study that traces the origins of slavery, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and capitalism, and questions the myths of America's history.
A.S. King
A surreal young adult novel about white privilege, family secrets, and interlocking lives.
Colson Whitehead
Set at the Nickel Academy reform school in 1960s Florida, the novel follows Elwood, who is sent there on a false charge, and his friendship with the more hard-bitten Turner as institutional violence and racism crush young lives. Drawing on the history of a real reform school, it asks hard questions about dignity, survival, and moral choice.
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles
Kazu, a laborer born in Soma, Fukushima, comes to Tokyo before the Olympics, works around Ueno, and eventually lives on the margins of Ueno Park. Through the memories of his ghost wandering the station and the park, the novel quietly layers family loss, poverty, disaster, the imperial system, and the shadows cast by urban prosperity.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
In 1960s Iceland, Hekla leaves for Reykjavik determined to become a writer, resisting the social expectations and gender roles placed upon her. The dreams and loneliness of her friends intersect with her own, creating a wry and tender portrait of the freedom to create.
J. Ashley-Smith
A short novella set around an attic where hidden pasts and family secrets come to the surface. It turns an ordinary world unsettling by degrees.
Pearl S. Buck
A long novel about the rise and decline of Wang Lung and his family in China. Through attachment to land, family bonds, famine, and social change, it presents the harshness and dignity of peasant life as a universal human drama.