Description: An award-winning novelist composes a multifaceted critique of the politics of personal expression.
Brief description: Juliet Winters Carpenter studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. In 1980, Carpenter's translation of Abe Kobo's novel Secret Rendezvous (Mikkai) won the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. She is the translator of all of Mizumura's English-language translations.
Review Quotes: The care with which Mizumura has crafted this book... [makes] the reading of it a pleasure, allowing for wit and personality to shine.-- "Full Stop"