LoT Book CLub - Book 2 - Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I wouldn't be surprised if Murakami was consulted on the project.

I think Japanese may be an incredibly hard language to translate into English, because I almost always find the writing somewhat frustrating. I imagine a lot gets lost in translation, and as I read the English I find myself wishing the English itself was *better*.

It doesn't, on the whole, effect how much I enjoy or dislike the overall story, but I've such a love of individual sentences and phrases, and those are - for me - a bit few and far between in this book. I had to keep reminding myself that it's a translation, and the fault really lies with my own inability to read in other languages. Ah, well.