Summer at Mount Asama

Masashi Matsuie began his literary career as a fiction editor for the Shinchosha Publishing Company, where he worked with writers such as Yoko Ogawa, Banana Yoshimoto, and Haruki Murakami and launched Shincho Crest Books, an imprint specializing in translations of foreign works. His debut novel, The Summer House, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, an award that normally goes to seasoned authors who are well along in their careers.

Kevin Shen is an American and British actor based in London. He has narrated dozens of audiobooks, and works regularly on stage and screen in the UK and the US. On stage, he has performed on the West End, at the National Theatre, and at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in multiple hit films and television shows, including Industry, Fool Me Once and The Day of the Jackal.

Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Japan’s 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for her translation of Yoko Tawada’s Scattered All Over the Earth and winner of the National Book Award for her translation of Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary.