Edinburgh International Book Festival Fiction (Adults) £15.50

Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Polly Barton & Charlotte Goff: Writing the Interior

Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Polly Barton, Charlotte Goff, Sash de Buyl
Venue B 21 Aug
12.00 1hr
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Nao-Cola Yamazaki is a name you’re about to hear everywhere. Their intimate novellas, Beautiful Distance and Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives, were smash hits in Japan, now published in English with stunning translations by Charlotte Goff and Polly Barton. Both stories deal with devotion: the deference employees are expected to show corporations in Japanese ‘salaryman’ culture, and the yearning that mounts between an art student and his much older tutor. Don’t miss this sparkling conversation with three rare talents. Chaired by Sash de Buyl. 

Supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

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