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Written, Mizumura says, as tribute to the Japanese serial novel and first serially published in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, the chapters are short and often end with teasers. Mizumura's The Fall of Language in the Age of English drew my attention with its provocative title, and I decided to read some of her fiction before her commentary. Surprisingly it reads a bit bumpily -- more later on this.