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by Hiromi Kawakami (Author), Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
Author Biography
HIROMI KAWAKAMI was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first book, God (Kamisama) was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Tread on a Snake (Hebi o fumu), and in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban), which was an international bestseller. The book was short-listed for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize.
ALLISON MARKIN POWELL is a translator, editor, and publishing consultant. In addition to Hiromi Kawakami's Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and The Ten Loves of Nishino, she has translated books by Osamu Dazai and Fuminori Nakamura, and her work has appeared in Words Without Borders and Granta, among other publications. She maintains the database japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 14, 2017
