Saturday, December 21, 2024
Sweet FootJourneys

Sweet FootJourneys

Dulcet Peregrinations

Novels

The first known novel was written by a Japanese woman, Murasaki Shikibu. Her book, The Tale of Genji, follows the life of the son of an emperor in medieval Japan and was published sometime before 1021. A thousand years later, novels continue pulling people into their imaginary worlds through the power of the written word alone. Here are some novels I’d like to share.