I Am a Japanese Writer

"Recommended for fans of absurdist literature like that written by Kurt Vonnegut and Harold Pinter."

I Am a Japanese Writer

"A quirky yet unique read of celebrity and wishes gone wrong, I am a Japanese Writer is a choice pick for literary fiction collections, highly recommended."

I Am a Japanese Writer

I Am a Japanese Writer

"It's a wonderful, existential conceit: The book we're reading is being written as we read it."

I Am a Japanese Writer

“Fans of international literature will find much that is familiar in I Am a Japanese Writer. The book bears a kinship, in terms of design, to European novels like Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller. In tone, Laferrière employs a poetic sensibility achieved through brief, elliptical chapters.”

I Am a Japanese Writer

“In his unique fashion, Laferrière captures the spirit of our culture, where cultural boundaries are erased and the real and the unreal intimately coexist.”

I Am a Japanese Writer

“I Am a Japanese Writer sees Laferriere challenge his readers in a way that can best be described as part Kafkaesque nightmare and Woody Allen acid test...The novel has a strong odour of nationalistic pride...relentlessly pushing the boundaries of unwarranted celebrity and manufactured cult phenomena to unimaginable and absurd degrees of sarcasm. There are plenty of references to, and encounters with streams of Japanese girls, and the sexual tension throughout flows like the smoothness of our hero’s scythe.”

I Am a Japanese Writer

“[I am a Japanese Writer] is all about place and identity, names and nationality and the paradoxical relationship between rigid lines of nationalism and the fluidity of the individual. Episodic and picaresque, it is a humorous look at identity and nationality, writing and the mind of a writer...This is a deceptively painless read, when really it's a complex, multi-faceted look at race, identity, art and culture.”

I Am a Japanese Writer

“I Am a Japanese Writer’s narrative self-awareness is its greatest strength...[Laferriere’s] penchant for pithy, wide-ranging cultural commentary is entertaining, particularly in the novel’s early sections.”

I Am a Japanese Writer

“Vonnegut once called him the ‘fastest titler in America,’ yet Dany Laferrière is even more than that. Funny, direct and true, Laferrière is among the most living of this continent’s living writers.”