Until now I have been uploading my own novel "The Land of Legend...The Land of Dream" in this blog.
Now it has been published entirely in the "Kindle", Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+land+of+legend...the+land+of+dream.

It is a novel about contemporary Russia. When it was published in Moscow, it was commended as "Doctor Zhivago" of out times.

I paste the synopsis below.

LAND OF LEGEND... LAND OF DREAM
---The Tale of Ilya
Akio KAWATO

This novel is an elegy to the lost opportunity for freedom in Russia, not only in our times but also during the entire Russian history. At the same time "Land of Legend, Land of Dream" is an ode to the magnanimous humanity of the Russian people.
The novel depicts the fate of a fictitious liberally-minded Russian journalist turned singer song writer against the background of the Soviet Union's fall. When it was published in Russia, one review said that the novel reminds one of Doctor Zhivago, which also depicts the fate of liberalism in the turmoil after the Russian Revolution.
During the chaos accompanying the fall of the Soviet Empire in 1991, people again fell prey to the merciless forces of the times. Without law and order people's desires and ambitions went uncontrolled. This period of crisis calls for a literary interpretation, and "Land of Legend, Land of Dream" with its large-scale historical view is one of the few attempts for it. It belongs to the tradition of the Russian epic novel.

The Russian version of this novel was published by the renowned publisher "Vagrius" in December 2001 to many positive reviews. Most Russians did not realize that the novel was written by a foreigner. The author of Land of Legend, Land of Dream, Akio KAWATO, is a retired Japanese diplomat who spent a total of eleven years in the Soviet Union and later Russia. Probably he is the only diplomat in the world who witnessed almost all the important events in the country during this period of tremendous change: the Brezhnev era, Brezhnev's demise, the period from Andropov to the coming of power of Gorbachev, the failed coup-d'etat in August 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union, the shelling of the Parliament in October 2003, and the coming to power of President Putin.

The author has an extensive knowledge of Russian history and culture, which is fully reflected in the novel. He did extensive background research for the novel and also traveled to Russian rural areas.

Today, when the atmosphere in Russia seems to be returning to the old days of the Soviet Union, in the sense that freedom is increasingly being suppressed and the citizens increasingly kept under the power of a censored media, and when the world community is witnessing a resurge of the authoritarian regime armed with nuclear missiles and with a monopoly in oil and natural gas supply to Europe, there is an even more urgent need for a literary presentation of the period of the Soviet Union's fall.

In the novel figure all kinds of Russian people: from a malicious oligarch, Romeo and Juliet of our times to a simple worker who has his apartment expropriated by mafia and becomes a homeless. Il'ya falls in love with a mystic KGB agent Aurora, an incarnation of Russia's holiness and sinfulness. The novel also deals with Czechoslovakia during the "Velvet Revolution" in 1989, Spain and America.

The underlying themes of the novel are the historical aspirations of the Russian people for freedom and their deep ties to nature. The novel examines how the excessive capitalist values of modern times both clashed and merged with the Communist society that had existed there for seventy years. Land of Legend, Land of Dream might be called a symphony of human evils and bigotry mixed with love and humanity.