On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:14 PM Ashwin Nanjappa <ashwi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The English translation of Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicle is by Jay
> Rubin. To my surprise I discovered later that entire chapters in the
> Japanese original do not appear in Rubin's work! I'm guessing this
> translation is "blessed" by Murakami, which makes the situation all
> the more puzzling.
>

Murakami is fluent in English. If he thinks Rubin's translation was in the
spirit of the original, I'd trust his (Murakami's) judgement.

Thaths

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