Tag: Japanese fiction

  • A cat, books, a story … need we say more?

    Need a change of pace? Bob Moyer reviews a novel that is probably unlike anything you’ve read in a long time. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS. By Sosuke Natsukawa. Translated by Louise Heal Kawai. Harpervia. 208 pages.  $15.19, paperback. A cat. Books. What more do you want you want? Well,…

  • Much more than meets the eye

    There he goes again. Not long back from the mean streets of L.A., and before that,  the Perigord region of France, Bob Moyer is now on a fictional journey to Japan. By Robert Moyer THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X. By Keigo Higashino. Minotaur Books. 298 pages. $24.99 A Japanese police procedural centered around a lunch…