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How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one
of the most famous writers alive? A rare look inside the making of
the "Murakami Industry"-and a thought-provoking exploration of the
role of translators and editors in the creation of global literary
culture. Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami's works were first
being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size
English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can
be read in fifty languages and have won prizes and sold millions of
copies globally. How did a loner destined for a niche domestic
audience become one of the most famous writers alive? This book
tells one key part of the story. Its cast includes an expat trained
in art history who never intended to become a translator; a Chinese
American ex-academic who never planned to work as an editor; and
other publishing professionals in New York, London, and Tokyo who
together introduced a pop-inflected, unexpected Japanese voice to
the wider literary world. David Karashima synthesizes research,
correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals-including
Murakami himself-to examine how countless behind-the-scenes choices
over the course of many years worked to build an internationally
celebrated author's persona and oeuvre. His careful look inside the
making of the "Murakami Industry" uncovers larger questions: What
role do translators and editors play in framing their writers'
texts? What does it mean to translate and edit "for a market"? How
does Japanese culture get packaged and exported for the West?
In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in
Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on
the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a
people to rebuild.
On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the
northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that
crushed everything in its path--highways, airports, villages,
trains, and buses--leaving death and destruction behind, and
causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here
eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional
responses to such a tragedy, in what is a fascinating, enigmatic
and poignant collection.
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