Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter [in Booklist]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Death brings “excitement ...
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A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Ann Sherif [in Library Journal]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
A Japanese writer, also named Minae Mizumura, recalls her privileged expatriate New York childhood, then witnesses her family devolve in adulthood. A Tokyo-based editor takes a countryside vacation and meets an older woman who shares fantastical memories of some of the inhabitants. A village girl...