The Briefcase

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 Hiromi Kawakami

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. English translation © Allison Markin Powell, 2012

Excerpts from Seihaku Irako’s poetry appear with permission from the translators, William Elliott and Katsumasa Nishihara. The excerpts on pages 8 and 9 from “Wandering” are reprinted from The Singing Heart: An Anthology of Japanese Poems, 1900–1960 © 2006.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958-

[Sensei no kaban. English]

The briefcase / Hiromi Kawakami ; translated by Allison Markin Powell.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-619-02043-6

1. Women-Fiction. 2. Men-Fiction. 3. Japan-Fiction. I. Powell, Allison Markin. II. Title.

PL855.A859S4613 2012

895.6’36-dc23

2011041521

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