Events

Time and Location

From April 22, 2024
Online (YouTube)

About

In April, Akutagawa Award winning author, Fujino Kaori and her translator, Kendall Heitzman travelled through the Midwest and Northeast to speak on her novel, Nails and Eyes. These events featured a bilingual reading with the author and her translator along with a Q&A session.

This is a recording of the event which took place on April 22, 2024 at Boston University.

Synopsis:
A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. Obsessively trying to curate a pristine life, this new interloper remains indifferent to the girl, who seems to record her every move – and she realizes only too late all that she has failed to see