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Paris Desert, Tokyo Mirage

Hitomi Kanehara

Translated by Morgan Giles

‘What I thought was the world yesterday, today I couldn’t even touch its outline.’

Two essays by Hitomi Kanehara.

Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara wrote her debut novel Hebi ni Piasu (Snakes and Earrings) at the age of twenty-one. The novel won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and the Subaru Literary Prize. Her other works include AutofictionHydra, Trip Trap and Mothers.

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Translated by Morgan Giles

Morgan Giles is a translator of Japanese literature and critic. Her translation of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (Tilted Axis/Riverhead) won the Translators Association’s First Translation Prize and has been shortlisted for the National Book Awards. She lives in London.

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