Kiyoko Murata (Author) KIYOKO MURATA has been awarded over ten major literary awards in Japan, including the Akutagawa Prize. A Woman of Pleasure is her first book to be published in English. She lives in Fukuoka, Japan. Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator) JULIET WINTERS CARPENTER is a distinguished translator of Japanese literature whose work has received numerous awards. She lives with her husband on Whidbey Island in Washington State.
Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs throughout the book. Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world -- Yoko Ogawa * author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri Shibun * Vivid, humane, and fresh, Murata's compelling tale of youth, sisterhood and society's treatment of women sings in Winter-Carpenter's translation -- Polly Barton * author of Fifty Sounds *