TITLE:
Anne's cradle : the life & works of Hanako Muraoka, Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables / by Eri Muraoka ; translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano.
Alternate Title:
Anne's cradle : the life and works of Hanako Muraoka
Publication Date:
2021, 2008
Publication Information:
Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Publishing,
Physical Description:
v, 304 p. [8] p. of plates : col. ill.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Summary:
The name Hanako Muraoka is revered in Japan. Her Japanese translation of L. M. Montgomery's beloved children's classic Anne of Green Gables, Akage no An (Red-haired Anne), was the catalyst for the book's massive and enduring popularity in Japan. For the first time, the bestselling biography of Hanako Muraoka written by her granddaughter, Eri Muraoka, and translated by the award-winning Cathy Hirano (The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up), is available in English. From rural Japan to mid-century Tokyo, Anne's Cradle tells the complex and captivating story of a woman who came of age in conservative twentieth-century Japan, and risked everything to bring the best of children's literature to her people, and cultivated a literary career that led generations of Japanese readers to fall in love with a plucky redhead from Prince Edward Island.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781771089241
