THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY
STEFAN ZWEIG
‘The World of Yesterday is one of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century, as perfect in its evocation of the world Zweig loved, as it is in its portrayal of how that world was destroyed’ David Hare
JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT
ANTAL SZERB
‘Just divine… makes you imagine the author has had private access to your own soul’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
BONITA AVENUE
PETER BUWALDA
‘One wild ride: a swirling helix of a family saga… a new writer as toe-curling as early Roth, as roomy as Franzen and as caustic as Houellebecq’ Sunday Telegraph
THE PARROTS
FILIPPO BOLOGNA
‘A five-star satire on literary vanity… a wonderful, surprising novel’ Metro
I WAS JACK MORTIMER
ALEXANDER LERNET-HOLENIA
‘Terrific… a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM
PETER FRÖBERG IDLING
‘Beautifully evocative… a must-read novel’ Daily Mail
THE RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY
PASI ILMARI JÄÄSKELÄINEN
‘Wonderfully knotty… a very grown-up fantasy masquerading as quirky fable. Unexpected, thrilling and absurd’ Sunday Telegraph
RED LOVE: THE STORY OF AN EAST GERMAN FAMILY
MAXIM LEO
‘Beautiful and supremely touching… an unbearably poignant description of a world that no longer exists’ Sunday Telegraph
THE BREAK
PIETRO GROSSI
‘Small and perfectly formed… reaching its end leaves the reader desirous to start all over again’ Independent
FROM THE FATHERLAND, WITH LOVE
RYU MURAKAMI
‘If Haruki is The Beatles of Japanese literature, Ryu is its Rolling Stones’ David Pilling
BUTTERFLIES IN NOVEMBER
AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR
‘A funny, moving and occasionally bizarre exploration of life’s upheavals and reversals’ Financial Times
BARCELONA SHADOWS
MARC PASTOR
‘As gruesome as it is gripping… the writing is extraordinarily vivid… Highly recommended’ Independent
THE LAST DAYS
LAURENT SEKSIK
‘Mesmerising… Seksik’s portrait of Zweig’s final months is dignified and tender’ Financial Times
BY BLOOD
ELLEN ULLMAN
‘Delicious and intriguing’ Daily Telegraph
WHILE THE GODS WERE SLEEPING
ERWIN MORTIER
‘A monumental, phenomenal book’ De Morgen
THE BRETHREN
ROBERT MERLE
‘A master of the historical novel’ Guardian
About the Authors
TOMOKA SHIBASAKI was born in 1973 in Osaka and began writing fiction while still in high school. After graduating from university, she took an office job but continued writing, and was shortlisted for the Bungei Prize in 1998. Her first book, A Day on the Planet, was turned into a hit movie, and Spring Garden won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2014.
POLLY BARTON grew up in London and read philosophy at university. Since winning the inaugural JLPP International Translation Competition in 2012, she has translated a variety of fiction by authors including Nao-cola Yamazaki, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Misumi Kubo and Aoko Matsuda, as well as non-fiction and art-related texts. She lives in Osaka.
Copyright
Series Editors: David Karashima and Michael Emmerich
Translation Editor: Elmer Luke
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HARU NO NIWA by SHIBASAKI Tomoka
Copyright © 2014 by SHIBASAKI Tomoka
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Original Japanese edition published by Bungeishunju Ltd., Japan
English translation rights in the UK reserved by Pushkin Press, under the licence granted by SHIBASAKI Tomoka, Japan, arranged with Bungeishunju Ltd., Japan through Japan UNI Agency, Japan.
English language translation © Polly Barton 2017
First published by Pushkin Press in 2017
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Centre for Literary Translation and the Nippon Foundation
ISBN 9781782272731
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