Shion Miura, “The Great Passage: A Novel”舟を編む, (Fune o Amu), Juliet Winters-Carpenter (trans.), 2013.
Shion Miura, “The Great Passage: A Novel”, 舟を編む, (Fune o Amu), Juliet Winters-Carpenter, 2013 was a novel of soft-science (linguistics) fiction. The protagonist is “Lexicographer”, who is working for a publisher on a “dictionary”. Lexicographer is a “word-need”, and has no dating experience. Lexicographer meets a female Japanese “Kaiseki” (haute cuisine) chef. They are polar … Continue reading Shion Miura, “The Great Passage: A Novel”舟を編む, (Fune o Amu), Juliet Winters-Carpenter (trans.), 2013.