At the End of the Matinee by Keiichiro Hirano, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter [in Booklist]
25 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
The I-narrator of the opening prologue, presented rather like an author’s note, sets up a revealing frame for the love story to come even as he inserts, then immediately elides himself. “If I were absolutely faithful to the truth, I myself would have to make...