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Author:   Elmer Luke ,  David Karashima
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.219kg
ISBN:  

9780307948861

ISBN 10:   0307948862
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   06 March 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Foreword by John Burnham Schwartz Introduction by Elmer Luke and David Karashima The Island of Eternal Life by Yoko Tawada The Charm by Kiyoshi Shigematsu Nightcap by Yoko Ogawa God Bless You, 2011 with postscript and original 1993 version by Hiromi Kawakami March Yarn by Mieko Kawakami Lulu by Shinji Ishii One Year Later by J. D. McClatchy Grandma’s Bible by Natsuki Ikezawa Pieces by Mitsuyo Kakuta Sixteen Years Later, in the Same Place by Hideo Furukawa The Crows and the Girl by Brother & Sister Nishioka Box Story by Tetsuya Akikawa Dream from a Fisherman’s Boat by Barry Yourgrau Hiyoriyama by Kazumi Saeki Ride on Time by Kazushige Abe Little Eucalyptus Leaves by Ryu Murakami After the Disaster, Before the Disaster by David Peace

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Elmer Luke is a writer and editor who has worked in publishing houses in New York and Tokyo, with a range of authors including Tom Wicker, Haruki Murakami, Colleen McCullough, Hiromi Kawakami, and Robert Whiting. He is adviser to the Read Japan project. David Karashima is an author whose first novel, in Japanese, was recipient of a prize for new writers; he is also a widely published translator of contemporary Japanese fiction into English, having translated works by Hitomi Kanehara, Taichi Yamada, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Hisaki Matsuura, among others. In 2008 he helped found the Read Japan initiative at the Nippon Foundation, a partnership among authors, translators, editors, publishers, and universities to facilitate the publication of Japanese literature in translation.

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