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| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| ISBN 13 | 9781610000000 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609454782 |
| Book Description | Far from her native country of Nigeria and living as a single mother, Salima works the night shift at the meat department of a supermarket in small-town Australia. She pushes herself to sign up for an ESL class and, at the group's first meeting, meets Sayuri, who has come to Australia from Japan. When Sayuri's daughter dies in daycare and one of Salima's boys leaves to live with his father, the two women look to one another for encouragement and support. Improving upon their conversational skills in English with each lesson, each one finds her life gradually improving. |
| About the Author | Iwaki Kei was born in Osaka. After graduating from college, she went to Australia to study English and ended up staying on, working as a Japanese tutor, an office clerk, and a translator. The country has now been her home for 20 years. Farewell, My Orange, her debut novel, won both the Dazai Osamu Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. Meredith McKinney is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese literature, whose translations include Sei Sh nagon's eleventh-century classic The Pillow Book, and Kokoro and Kusamakura by the early modern novelist Natsume S seki. McKinney's mother was poet and activist Judith Wright, and her father was philosopher and novelist J.P. McKinney. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Japan Centre, Australian National University, where she teaches Japanese-English translation. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Iwaki Kei |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 11/29/2018 |
| Number of Pages | 128 |
Farewell, My Orange
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