The Octopus Man
Monday, December 16, 2024
Asian writers no longer explore grand themes such as war and peace, man’s fate, or this earth of mankind. Is this noticeable shift an allegory of social change?
HAN Kang, Hiromi Kawakami, Bora Chung, Mieko Kawakami, Shikawa Saou...
All I had for them were vague questions, some of which spilled out at a dinner with writer Hiromi Kawakami. Like many Japanese, she was polite by Javanese standards. But she was also very relaxed, wearing a loose pale T-shirt, and her soft voice I had heard the night before, when she gave the opening speech for the Jakarta International Literary Festival. She was accompa
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