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Dinner at the Night Library: The perfect next comfort read for lovers of Japanese fiction - Couverture souple

Harada, Hika

 
9781398543966: Dinner at the Night Library: The perfect next comfort read for lovers of Japanese fiction

Synopsis

All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. After applying successfully for for a job at a library with no name, referred to simply as "The Night Library", Otaha and her sunny personality immediately earns her comparisons with Anne of Green Gables. For the very first time she feels she has found her place in the world.

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À propos des auteurs

Born 1970 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Harada won the 34th NHK Creative Radio Drama Grand Prix in 2005 for Little Princess No. 2. In 2007, she won the 31st Subaru Literary Award for The Teatime That Doesn’t Start. Her novel How to Use 3,000 Yen won the Miyazaki Book Award. Her other books include Dinner at the Night Library and many more.

PhilipGabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

For fans of What You Are Looking For is in the Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Translated by Philip Gabriel, the translator of IQ84 and The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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