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Minae Mizumurais one of the most important writers in Japan today. Born in Tokyo, she moved with her family to Long Island, New York when she was twelve. She studied French literature at Yale College and Yale Graduate School. Her other novels include the Yomiuri Prize-winningA True Novel(Other Press, 2013),Zoku meian(Light and Dark Continued), a sequel to the unfinished classicLight and Darkby Soseki Natsume, andShishosetsu from left to right(An I-Novel from Left to Right), an autobiographical work. Her most recent book in English,The Fall of Language in the Age of English, was published in 2015 by Columbia University Press. She lives in Tokyo. Juliet Winters Carpenter studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. Carpenter's translation of Kobo Abe's novelSecret Rendezvouswon the 1980 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
The story of how Mitsuki confronts a philandering husband and a dying mother illuminates a midlife conundrum that is both Japanese and universal. --Washington Post The 66 chapters are brief, emotionally combustible...Ms. Mizumura craftily mixes the old with the new, creating a highly readable throwback to popular dime novels that replaces gilt with guilt and romance with real talk. --Wall Street Journal There is admirable ambition in the way Mitsuki's story expands into a much larger portrait of middle-class anomie in a Japan still reckoning with its past and the paradoxes--and fraught compromises--of its identity... the new world may be constructed a thousand times, but invariably it reaches back into the old, the kind of inheritance that just may emanate darkness--as well as light. --New York Times Book Review
