Shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. A beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan’s greatest writers. Translated by Stephen Snyder.
Yoko Ogawa
Writer and novelist Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award available.
Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and the story collection Revenge.
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