Just finished the title novella Kamogawa Runner. Told in the second person, this is the story of an American man modelled on the author who discovers himself through studying Japanese and settling in Japan. Khezrnejat's facility with the language is astounding!

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I'm beginning my exploration of exophonic novelists, who write in Japanese but whose mother tongue is another language, with Gregory Khezrnejat's Kamogawa Runner (鴨川ランナー).

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I’m writing the first draft of a brand new short story in the Japanese language. Wish me luck in crafting something powerful and convincing someone to publish it.

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