Some 87 years ago, Japanese American writer Shōson Nagahara serialized a novel, A Tale of Osato, in the pages of the Rafu Shimpo—a Japanese American newspaper, which first started in Little Tokyo back in 1903. Now, for the first time ever, Nagahara’s collected writings have been translated into English and published by Kaya Press: Lament in […]
Some 87 years after Shōson Nagahara’s gritty stories of survival were published in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo for a Japanese immigrant readership, Kaya Press brings you the first-ever English translation of these forgotten novellas: Lament in the Night, translated by Andrew Leong. Along with Nagahara’s writing, the book features dozens of archival photographs documenting Little […]
Now on the Kaya Press Smoking Hot Bookshelves is our newest title: Lament In The Night by Shoson Nagahara (Translated by Andrew Leong). A collection of two novellas originally published in 1920s Los Angeles, both stories are evocative of their age. Complete with the sex, gambling, and alcohol that have become synonymous with the time, […]
Join a wild rumpus in celebration of the release of the latest issue of the Asian American Literary Review and Kaya Press’ book release of Shoson Nagahara’s Lament in the Night with translator Andrew Leong! Other special guests include poets Ed Bok Lee and Bao Phi from Coffee House Press, and editors from the AALR […]
