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Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers
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Long-awaited by teachers and students, Read Real Japanese Fiction presents short works by six of todays most daring and provocative Japanese writers. The spellbinding world of Hiromi Kawakami; the hair-raising horror of Otsuichi; the haunting, poignant prose of Banana Yoshimoto; even the poetic word-play of Yoko Tawada whatever a readers taste, he or she is sure to find something of interest and value in this book, suitable for students at the intermediate level and above.
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Page Count:
256
ISBN:
1568365292
ISBN13:
9781568365299
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Another excellent intermediate-level graded reader
Like its counterpart "Read Real Japanese Essays", Read Real Japanese Fiction combines audio narration, six Japanese short stories, an English gloss, English grammar notes, and a J -> E dictionary to create a fairly all-in-one learning experience.
I would definitely recommend only tackling this if you're at an intermediate level; N3 at absolute minimum grammar-wise, though N2 wouldn't be unappreciated either. Vocab's not a huge issue, given the easy look-up of any unknown words in the book's dic