Maru Ayase

Jul 25, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Maru Ayase |Michel Jean |Tobias Carroll |Wesley Lewis

When he glanced her way, Sekiguchi Masashi saw that the writer’s wife, sitting at the kitchen table, had started silently munching away on a bowlful of mixed nuts. She was sucking them into her mouth one after another, grains of every size and color imaginable—brown, cream, black, white. Sekiguchi felt a sticky sense of discomfort spread throughout his chest just watching. He had never had a strong stomach. A bowl of oil-rich nuts would undoubtedly give him indigestion.

Jul 17, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Maru Ayase

Haydn Trowell is an Australian literary translator of modern and contemporary Japanese fiction. His translations include Love at Six Thousand Degrees by Maki Kashimada and the forthcoming title The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata.