Maki Kashimada: Touring the Land of the Dead: Two Novellas

Maki Kashimada’s first novel Two won the 1998 Bungei Prize. Since then, she has established herself as a writer of literary fiction and become known for her avant-garde style. In 2005 she received the Mishima Yukio Prize for Love at 6,000 Degrees Celsius , a novel set in Nagasaki and based on Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras, and in 2007 she took the Noma Prize for New Writers for Picardy Third . She was nominated three times for the Akutagawa Prize before ultimately winning the award in 2012 with Touring the Land of the Dead . One of her best-known works is The Kingdom of Zero (2009), which reworks Dostoevsky’s The Idiot into the tale of a saintly idiot in Japan. She has been a follower of the Japanese Orthodox Church since high school.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2015 by Maki Kashimada

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Original Japanese edition published by KAWADE SHOBO SHINSHA Ltd. Publishers.

This English edition is published by arrangement with KAWADE SHOBO SHINSHA Ltd. Publishers, Tokyo

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First publication 2021 by Europa Editions

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Translation by Haydn Trowell

Original Title: Meido Meguri; 99 no seppun

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The translation of this work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship

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