5/26/2023 0 Comments N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto![]() ![]() Only after he has slept with her several times does he discover that she is his own daughter.” Is this Saki?Īs it turns out, this story is based on fact however, it was not about Saki, but rather about Sui, a step-sister, who is now living with Otohiko, her half-brother. Then he falls in love with a teen-age girl he meets in a bar on the outskirts of town. When Kazami becomes friends with Sarao Takase’s daughter, Saki, she wonders about that 98th story, in which the main character “gets divorced and starts leading the wild singles life. You’re not going to live long with that kind of world in your head.” ![]() That utter stillness you feel when you see a whole bunch of tropical fish swimming by, all in bright colors, and they don’t even look like living creatures. ![]() What would be an appropriate metaphor to explain my feelings when I was doing the translation? An endless meadow of golden pampas grass swaying in the wind, or a coral reef beneath a deep, brilliant blue ocean. Kazami, now 22, attempted to translate the book into Japanese before giving up: “Quitting was a sign of a healthy mind-I think. All of this has taken place offstage, before the main action of the story takes place. He was working on “NP” when, unable to get the 98th story quite right, he too committed suicide so had another translator (with his assistant) before him. Our narrator, Kazami, a translator, had an affair with another translator, Shoji Toda, while she was still in high school. ![]()
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