TOKYO: As Japan has slowly contorted itself into a life of COVID-19 confinement, two books have been fighting for the top spot on Amazon.co.jp.
One is the Japanese translation of Albert Camus’ 1947 classic La Peste, in which the horrors of a cholera outbreak are used to dissect the human condition.
Advertisement Advertisement The other is a still unreleased, 1,072-page guidebook for the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.