Good morning!
In case the term doesn’t ring a bell, “Healing fiction” are the name for Japanese translated novels. I think this really suits them well, as all of those i’ve read and seen so far is about just that- a general “feel good” and healing journey for the characters.
Albeit the fact that i’m no literary expert, even I can notice how different in writing they are compared to the western writings- and so many cats!! I love it!! It seems like every healing fictions include a cat somewhere. or coffee! Now that I found them, I wanna read as much as possible!
Books read;
- What you are looking for is in the library, Michiko Aoyama (my review)
- Before the coffee gets cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi (my review)
- The full moon coffee shop (my review)
Wanna read;
- The guest cat, Takashi Hiraide (SG)
- The blanket cats, Kiyoshi Shigematsu (SG)
- The travelling cat chronicles, Hira Arikawa (SG)
- We’ll prescribe you a cat, Syou Ishida (SG)
- Welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop, Hwang Bo-Reum (SG)
- Un jeudi saveur Chocolat (chocolate on thurdays?), Mishiko Aoyama (SG)
- The restaurant of love recipes, Hisashi Kashiwai (SG)
- The kamogawa food detectives, Hisashi Kashiwai (SG)
While it’s nowhere near new, I thanks the new wave of this bookish trend to have brought the genre into my attention. Starting with before the coffee gets cold, as of which I should’ve read years ago! though i’m glad I finally read it
The only thing I got taken aback from was the way fatness was portrayed from the librarian in What you’re looking for is in the library; the first description that was given to us by the first time our characters looked at her baffled me.. although the fatphobia don’t go furter, thanksfully, as the way they see her change after the book they got changed their life.
Are you a fan already of this genre?
Do you have other books I should add onto my list?