Award-winning novelist Haruki Murakami’s stories have been translated into over 50 languages for readers all over the world. Behind the scenes, however, a lot of work goes into adapting a single book into another language. In order to save the nuances of a passage from being lost in translation, publishers need to think carefully about how to weave sentences together as if the translated text was the author’s native language.
In this exhibition at Waseda University's Haruki Murakami library, bibliophiles can pore over books by Murakami and other Japanese authors that have been adapted for readers overseas, and contemplate all the doors that the process of translation has opened to the world.