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Kaori Ekuni: きらきらひかる (Twinkle Twinkle)
At the start of the novel, Shoko has been married to Mutsuki for ten days. Things seem to be going well. The only thing he really requires of her, is to iron the sheets of his bed, before he goes to bed, so that the bed is warm when he gets into it. She works as a part-time translator from the Italian and he, like his father, is a doctor. However, each brings a particular problem to the marriage. She has been diagnosed as emotionally unstable, a condition exacerbated by her drinking problem. Her doctor had recommended marriage to help make her more emotionality stable. The first seven prospects had been rejected and Mutsuki was the eighth. Mutsuki is aware of her condition and it does not seem to bother him. For example, when he is doing the housework on Sunday morning, which he likes doing, she has to put her feet up and, in some annoyance at this, sings at and then shouts at the plant, a gift from Mutsuki’s friend, Kon, and at the various pictures they have on the wall. Finally, she throws things at them.
Mutsuki’s problem is that he is gay. Again, Shoko is well aware of this but is not too concerned. Sex does not really interest her, she says. Kon, as well as being h
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Japan’s Women Writers in France
Ekuni Kaori
Born in Tokyo in 1964. Started out as a writer of children’s stories, publishing her first book in 1987. Wrote her first full-length novel for adults in 1989, and received the Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Literature in 1992 for the novel Kirakira hikaru (trans. Twinkle Twinkle), which was made into a film. Since then, she has been active across a wide variety of genre, including novels, essays, picture books, and poetry. In 2004, she received the Naoki Prize for Gōkyū suru junbi wa dekiteita (Getting Ready To Cry My Heart Out). In April 2012, she received the Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Literature for Inu to hāmonika (The Dog and the Harmonica), which was released last year. She has translated almost 60 children’s books into Japanese.
Kakuta Mitsuyo
Born in Yokohama in 1967. Debuted in 1988 as a writer of fiction for younger readers. Published her first book for adults 1990, winning the ninth Kaien Prize for New Writers for Kōfuku na yūgi (A Happy Game). Has published a steady stream of novels ever since, winning the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers in 1996 for Madoromu yoru no UFO (UFO On a Sleepy Night), and the Naoki Prize in 2005 for Taigan no kanojo (trans. Woman on the Other Shore). In January 2012, sh
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No 340Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni, translated by Emi Shimokawa
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