Kazushige Abe

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Kazushige Abe


Born
in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
September 23, 1968


阿部 和重

Kazushige Abe is a film critic and award-winning writer.

Average rating: 3.34 · 1,093 ratings · 246 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
Nipponia Nippon

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3.28 avg rating — 703 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions
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Mysterious Setting

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3.43 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2006
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ไอพี/เอ็นเอ็น

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3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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แดนเทพยดา_กัญชาไร้เมล็ด

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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Il proiezionista

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2.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions
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เควซาร์กับเสาต้นที่ 13

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3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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アメリカの夜 [Amerika no yoru]

3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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グランド・フィナーレ [Gurando fināre]

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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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ピストルズ [Pisutoruzu]

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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シンセミア 上

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 3 editions
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What should we read in October and November?

Top two books via RANKED CHOICE win as October and November reads. Take a look at the thread for more info about books. Please check your local availability/price comfort before you vote. Again, apologies for going AWOL, but it slowed us down. Vote by Friday so people have time to get book copies?

Vote for your top choice in the polling. If you want, rank your other choices in the comments. I will tabulate if Bill will set up the spreadsheet. (Thanks, Bill!)

Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder); 288 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability—newly released in August; no obvious CWs
 
  7 votes 50.0%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani; ~230 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; no obvious CWs
 
  4 votes 28.6%

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (trans. Philip Gabriel); ~350 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW bullying
 
  2 votes 14.3%

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami; ~200 pages, depending on the edition; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW for significant violence
 
  1 vote 7.1%

Journey Under the Midnight Sun aka (Under the Midnight Sun in North America) by Keigo Higashino (trans. Alexander O. Smith); ~530 pages; US and UK availability on Bookshop.org; CW—it's a murder mystery
 
  0 votes 0.0%

Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe (trans. Kerim Yasar); 155 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW misogyny, generally creepy male protagonist
 
  0 votes 0.0%

14 total votes
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