Allison Markin Powell
Allison Markin Powell won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Hiromi Kawakami’s The Ten Loves of Nishino and is also the translator of Kawakami’s Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop as well as Shunmyo Masuno’s The Art of Simple Living and works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi, among others. She was the guest editor of the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders and maintains the online database Japanese Literature in English. She lives in New York.
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The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa
Welcome aboard the Hankyu train!
Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and a perfectly cosy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers—including one dashing dachsund—whose lives intersect and affect each other on one of Japan's most romantic…
Hardcover
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
Hiro Arikawa
How to Let Things Go
Shunmyo Masuno; Translated by Allison Markin Powell
Don't Worry
Shunmyo Masuno; Translated by Allison Markin Powell