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Arthur Waley's elegant translation of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon captures the beauty of its prose and the vitality of Shonagon's narrative voice
” — LifeFrom the Hardcover edition
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character sketches
The Moment Ignyte Award Nominee for Best Novel Adult (2021) Arthur Waley's elegant translation ofThomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile himself to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset his solitude is disrupted by the arrival, one wintry morning, of a box postmarked Berlin. The name accompanying the return address on the box Dussmann disquiets him completely. For it is the name
