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The latest word from Kodansha International:

We received some spectacular news this morning – THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW will feature THE DEVIL’S WHISPER in the Sunday, November 4 issue, in the “Crime” column by Marilyn Stasio.

Stasio gave the book a rave, saying, “Miyabe’s forte is suspense, and here it’s built around the strange behavior of young women being driven to suicide.  But the peculiar fascination of the story lies in its acute observations of the way masochistic shame and guilt play into the social conformity so inhibiting to the Japanese identity.”

To make sense of this you have to click the photo and then move it around on your screen. For the record, there is NO mention of the translator. Anna and I decided at some objective point in our career that no mention of the translator MUST mean it seemed as if there were no translator–which means it must be good. The more invisible the better…