Lucy North
Lucy North has translated over half a dozen modern and contemporary Japanese writers, including Taeko Kono, Fumiko Enchi, Takako Takahashi, Hiroko Oyamada and Hiromi Kawakami.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Natsuko Imamura
An excerpt from The Woman in the Purple Skirt, which won the 2019 Akutagawa Prize.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Careless
Hiroko Oyamada
‘As I lay on the mattress, the white toe pads of the gecko floated up before me, against the vastness of the blue-black night. Rather than a presence, it seemed to me more like a trace, a barely discernible odour that flooded in on the air.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 127
Blue Moon
Hiromi Kawakami
‘Rather than death itself, it is the disappearance of traces that seems unbearable and sad. The disappearance of all signs that I existed.’
