Million-copy bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, chosen as the title bookshop staff most wanted to hand-sell- A feel-good, uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler.
Natsu Miyashita (Author)
NATSU MIYASHITA was born in Fukui Prefecture on Honshu island,
Japan, in 1967. She has had a lifelong passion for reading and
writing and has played the piano since she was very young. THE
FOREST OF WOOL AND STEEL won the influential Japan Booksellers'
Award, in which booksellers vote for the title they most enjoy to
hand-sell. It has also been turned into a popular Japanese film
directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki.
Philip Gabriel (Author, Translator)
Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams- Shimao
Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters-
The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated
many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and
other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship
Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001)
for his translation of Senji Kuroi's Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and
the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his
translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
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