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Yoko Ogawa
Translated from the Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata
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Author
Yoko Ogawa was born in 1962 in Okayama prefecture and now lives in Ashiya, Japan. Her fiction has been published in Manoa and The New Yorker, and a collection of her novellas is due out from Picador next year.
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