My English translation of Uketsu's third, and longest, novel is out now worldwide. Strange Buildings expands and improves on the core concept of Strange Houses, creating a multilayered narrative around the designs of 11 different buildings, which all end up woven into a much greater,…
Continue reading...I do, in fact, translate more than just Uketsu books, and on February 12th the latest such was released in the UK. The Ark by Haruo Yuki. The Ark is a mystery/thriller in the honkaku mode. It tells the story of a group of seven…
Continue reading...A lot of the talk about translation done by people who don't think all that deeply about it—even professional translators!—focuses on things like accuracy and faithfulness, but I find that tends to work around assumptions that are worth investigating. Like, when something is "accurate," we…
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