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Farewell, My Orange by Iwanki Kei; Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize Two immigrants, Salimah and Sayuri, navigate isolation, a new language, and devastating loss on their way to a lifelong friendship. Far from her native country of Nigeria and now living as a single mother of two, Salimah works the night shift at a supermarket in small-t ...Show more
Gazing at the Moon - Buddhist Poems of Solitude by Saigyo; Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Category: Poetry
A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyō, whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow came to epitomize the Japanese poetic tradition. Saigyō, the Buddhist name of Fujiwara no Norikiyo (1118-1190), is one of Japan's most famous and beloved poets. He was a recluse monk who spen ...Show more
Kusamakura by Sôseki Natsume; Natsume Sôseki; Meredith McKinney (Translator, Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A stunning new English translation--the first in more than forty years--of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura--meaning "grass pillow"--follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring ...Show more
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney
Category: Travel
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre ...Show more
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