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Asa: The Girl Who Turned Into A Pair Of Chopsticks is Natsuko Imamura's second book to be translated into English.

Asa: The Girl Who Turned Into A Pair Of Chopsticks is Natsuko Imamura's second book to be translated into English.

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By Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North
Fiction/Faber & Faber/Paperback/191 pages/$22.89

A trio of snappy yet surreal and thought-provoking short stories form Japanese writer Natsuko Imamura’s second book to be translated into English.

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