N.P. A Novel

A short but complex and lyrical story of translation, love, death and alienation. Kazami is a translator, and she has a collection of stories called "N.P.". Written in English by a Japanese writer who committed suicide, the collection of 97 short stories seems cursed. Everyone who has tried to translate them into Japanese has died, including Kazami's tutor/lover Shoji. But it's...more

A short but complex and lyrical story of translation, love, death and alienation. Kazami is a translator, and she has a collection of stories called "N.P.". Written in English by a Japanese writer who committed suicide, the collection of 97 short stories seems cursed. Everyone who has tried to translate them into Japanese has died, including Kazami's tutor/lover Shoji. But it's no ghost story; rather it's about the family relations and the meaning of the unpublished extra stories. Kazami meets the author's children, young adults who share her own fatherless upbringing. They become friends, antagonists, lovers... and somehow resolution of the past is possible.   hide

...it was different.maybe i was expecting something else.i do like other her books more..but it was still good.

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