Sosuke Natsukawa is a doctor in Nagano, Japan. His first book
Kamisama No Karute (God's Medical Records) won the Shogakukan
Fiction Prize and received 2nd Place at the Japan Bookseller
Awards. It sold over 1.5 million copies and was adapted into a film
in Japan.
Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an
investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo
before becoming one of Japan's most acclaimed and bestselling
fiction writers. Seventeen is his second novel to be translated
into English.
Louise Heal Kawai was born in Manchester, England. She has spent
the past twenty years in Japan. Her translations include Daido
Tamaki's Milk and Tendo Shoko's bestselling autobiography, Yazuka
Moon.
Bibliophiles will dote on this charming import from Japan.--
"Library Journal"
Cats, books, young love, and adventure: catnip for a variety of
readers!-- "Kirkus Reviews"
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