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I studied Japanese lit as well as CS in college so I've read a bunch of his stuff in english and japanese. This is one of his better short stories in a while. I
by ixtli 12y ago
I studied Japanese lit as well as CS in college so I've read a bunch of his stuff in english and japanese. This is one of his better short stories in a while. If anyone is looking for something international by him I recommend Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World ( http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-Wonderland-End-World-International/dp/0679743464 http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-Wonderland-End-World-Inter... ). Read it in your first language: you're missing nothing. It's one of the best Japanese -> English translations I've ever seen.
- aomurphy 12y agoPartially because Murakami i very involved in the Japanese to English Translation. He cares a lot about translation, he's actually a very accomplished English to Japanese translator himself, he's translate F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote among others. Plus he has an excellent series of English translators, like Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. He's noted that he really learned to love novels by reading imported English language dime novels as a teenager in Kobe.