Minae Mizumura, trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Other Press, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59051-782-6
Mizumura (A True Novel) upends the paradigm of the Japanese mother-daughter relationship in this complex novel. Mitsuki and her older sister, Natsuki, both married with complicated lives, grapple with their mother Noriko’s declining health. Because...
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Minae Mizumura, trans. from the Japanese by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter. Columbia Univ., $35 (256p) ISBN 978-0-231-16302-6
A bestselling sensation in Japan, this erudite but accessible volume from novelist Mizumura (A True Novel) functions as a stirring call to consciousness about the role of language. Originally focused on concerns particular to Mizumura’s native Japan,
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Minae Mizumura, trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Ann Sherif. Other Press, $25 two-volume boxed set (876p) ISBN 978-1-59051-203-6
The story-within-a-story-within-a-story at the heart of this novel features a doomed, Wuthering Heights romance set in postwar Japan, with the 20th-century Heathcliff riding the Japanese-American economic wave. Concentric narratives connect and...
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