Just purchased:
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
.....Jean-Dominique Bauby (
tr: Jeremy Leggatt)
Sulphuric Acid
.....Amélie Nothomb (
tr: Shaun Whiteside)
The latter after reading about her here yesterday, the former because I'd heard such good things about the recent film, but never got around to seeing it. Should
always do the book first though - paid through the nose for English language text in Madrid of course...
I really like those Japanese covers there. Please excuse the sidetracking, but the bottom ones remind me of the DVD cases for the excellent
Twilight Samurai and something else, I forget what - but there are two or more different titles which use the same cover art.
EDIT: The cover for
When The Last Sword Is Drawn is similar too. Those are two films well worth watching for fans of Japanese cinema.