Farewell, My Orange

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Price
$15.00  $13.95
Publisher
Europa Editions
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Pages
128
Dimensions
5.3 X 0.7 X 8.2 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781609454784
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About the Author

Iwaki Kei was born in Osaka. After graduating from college, she went to Australia to study English and ended up staying on, working as a Japanese tutor, an office clerk, and a translator. The country has now been her home for 20 years. Farewell, My Orange, her debut novel, won both the Dazai Osamu Prize and the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize.

Meredith McKinney is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese literature, whose translations include Sei Shônagon's eleventh-century classic The Pillow Book, and Kokoro and Kusamakura by the early modern novelist Natsume Sôseki. McKinney's mother was poet and activist Judith Wright, and her father was philosopher and novelist J.P. McKinney. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Japan Centre, Australian National University, where she teaches Japanese-English translation.

Reviews

Praise for Farewell, My Orange

"In this unexpectedly riveting work, as spare as it is detailed, with its emphasis on learning at differing levels, Iwaki proves how the most important lesson concerns empathy."--Financial Times

"Kei adroitly intertwines these remarkable characters' dreams and determination, making for an immigrant tale that readers won't forget." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)