Award-winning, multitalented writer and translator Kaori Ekuni’s fiction somehow retains a distinctive quality of lightness, despite her frequent themes of loss and longing.
Take “Twinkle Twinkle,” one of only two works currently translated into English. Alternating between two narrators, a husband and wife unfold the complications of their modern, arranged marriage of convenience.
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