Philip Gabriel

About The Author

PhilipGabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.


 

Books by Philip Gabriel

Dinner at the Night Library

The perfect next comfort read for lovers of Japanese fiction

By Hika Harada
Translated by Philip Gabriel
The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:the books they wrote; the books that inspired them;the books they loved.   All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting natu...
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