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“Murasaki watched the sexual maneuverings, the social plots, the marital politics, the swirl of slights and flatteries that went on around her, with the keen, sometimes sardonic, and always worldly eyes of a medieval Jane Austen.” New Yorker
“This new version by Dennis Washburn…[is] a fluid, elegant rendition.” Washington Post
“Washburn’s translation is a superb achievement. He fully captures the enthralling quality of the original.” Times Literary Supplement
“Shikibu’s eleventh-century novel, the first in Japanese, flows beautifully in Dennis Washburn’s fluid, approachable translation and the pitch-perfect casting of narrator Brian Nishii.” Audible.com