Great Japanese Stories, 9780241634479
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Uncover Japan’s soul: Ten stories, original language, expert translations.
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Great Japanese Stories

10 parallel texts

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    6 May 2024

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Summary

Lost in Translation, Found in Language: A Journey Through Japanese Short Stories

A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translations. This dual-language edition of ten stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Japan.

Each story appears in the original Japanese alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for language learners. Ranging fro…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241634479
ISBN-10:0241634474
Series:Parallel Texts
Author:Jay Rubin
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:6 May 2024
Weight:202g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 15mm
About The Author

Jay Rubin

Jay Rubin is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami’s major works, including Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Natsume Soseki’s The Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and a novel, The Sun Gods.

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