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Ginny Tapley Takemori lives in rural Japan and has translated fiction by more than a dozen early modern and contemporary Japanese writers, ranging from such early literary giants as Izumi Kyoka and Okamoto Kido, to contemporary bestsellers Ryu Murakami and Miyabe Miyuki. Her translations have also appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, Words Without Borders, and a number of anthologies. Her translation of Tomiko Inui’s The Secret of the Blue Glass was shortlisted for the Marsh Award, and her translation of Sayaka Murata’s Akutagawa prize-winning novel Convenience Store Woman was one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2018 and Foyle’s Book of the Year 2018. Her translation of Kyoko Nakajima’s Naoki prize-winning The Little House was published in Febr ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 471,799 ratings · 77,066 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 388,980 ratings — published 2016 — 133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 105,137 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 28,829 ratings — published 2019 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She and Her Cat: Stories by Naruki Nagakawa, Makoto Shinkai, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 22,119 ratings — published 2013 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.23 avg rating — 12,337 ratings — published 2015 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 3,462 ratings — published 1967 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mornings Without Mii by Mayumi Inaba, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 2,361 ratings — published 1999 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyōko Nakajima, Ian Mccullough MacDonald (Translator), Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura, Sayaka Murata (Afterword), Lucy North (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 1,754 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction by Michael Emmerich (Editor), Jim Hinks (Editor), Masashi Matsuie (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 1,314 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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