[Japanese characters:] Orlando. A Biography. [Translated by Oda Masanobu.]

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the translator on the flyleaf, to the author Shumuta Natsuo.The first of the author's novels to be translated in full into Japanese. In his Preface, the translator summarises his conception of the author's importance - and that of this particular work - in contradistinction to James Joyce, hitherto the chief modernist import, largely on the grounds of the greater attention given to gender politics.The dustjacket carries a striking playing-card design that is effective in its simplicity.