Description

• This innovative and bestselling novel won two major literary awards in Japan: the Hagiwara Sakutarō Award and the Izumi Shikibu Award.
• Hiromi Ito is known for dynamic performances of her work (see YouTube for some examples). She also gives readings with her award-winning translator, Jeffrey Angles.
• Like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada, Ito often uses magic realism to imbue daily life with a mythic quality.
• Ito enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture.
• This is the first novel coming out under the new MONKEY imprint at Stone Bridge Press. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is a literary magazine known for introducing and promoting Japanese authors to English readers. (MONKEY publishes Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, and many other contemporary Japanese writers.)