A True Novel

Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winter Carpenter. With photographs by Toyota Horiguchi. First edition; first printing. viii+ 854pp. + [viii]. 2 vols in a slipcase. Photo-illustrated limp card wrapps. In decorated card slipcase. About fine. *** Minae Mizumura is a prominent Japanese novelist and literary critic, born in Tokyo in 1951. She moved to the United States at age 12, studied French literature at Yale, and later returned to Japan to write fiction, primarily in Japanese. Her best-known novel, A True Novel, is a reworking Wuthering Heights, set in contemporary Japan.