National Book Awards 2020
Established in 1936 and again after the war in 1950, the National Book Awards has been a beacon for great literary works. We hope you enjoy some NBA 2020 winners which can be found on the Kinokuniya USA Online Store.
The dead are arising
NON-FICTION
By Les Payne and Tamara Payne
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.
Interior Chinatown
FICTION
by Charles Yu
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--
Tokyo Ueno Station
TRANSLATED LITERATURE
by Yu Miri
A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.