A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The first English translation of Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies appeared in 1978, when James R. Abrams tried to capture Nosaka’s long, stream-of-consciousness sentences and the local Kobe dialect. More than forty years later, translator Ginny Tapley Takemori has…
