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In this McNally Jackson Books event, Polly Barton reads from her English translation of Mai Ishizawa’s debut novel, The Place of Shells (New Directions, 2025), and talks about her experience researching the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in order to capture the historical, emotional center of Ishizawa’s writing in a conversation with Eliza St. James.
Tags: Fiction | Translation | Mai Ishizawa | Polly Barton | The Place of Shells | New Directions | McNally Jackson Books | reading | Japanese | 2025
