A True Novel by Japanese author Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, received a lot of positive attention when it was released in 2013 by Other Press.*  Not least because it was released in a beautiful two-volume, illustrated and slip-cased edition. But the plot, itself, was always going to be catnip to a certain type of reader — the re-interpretaion of the beloved Bronte … Continue reading A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter