Quiet Fragility: Feeling the World with Yoko Ogawa
Inside ‘The Memory Police,’ ‘Mina’s Matchbox,’ and ‘The Housekeeper and the Professor’
I discovered Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox by accident. I was in Cleveland, Ohio, with my son and—as I often do when visiting another city—I searched out the bookstore nearest our hotel. Lucky me! Just a couple hundred yards away stood Clevo, a small shop featuring nothing but books in translation.
On the hunt for a few treasures, I worked my way past eve…
