free offer for miura fans

KAIREI (Asahi Shimbun Press, 1981) is one of Miura Ayako's greatest historical works. It was once made into a bilingual feature-length film and, in recent years, has been performed in several locations throughout the world as a stage play. (see details in this post)

In 1993, my English translation of Kairei was published by Dawn Press under the title Hidden Ranges. It has long since been out-of-print. With English translations of Miura's works so rare and difficult to come by, I've decided to offer an updated and slightly abridged version of my original translation at no cost to readers of this blog and members of the Miura Ayako Book Club on Facebook.

If you are interested in reading Hidden Ranges, please become a follower or subscriber to this blog and/or a member of the Miura Ayako Book Club on Facebook. Then email your request to the email address on my blog profile (click my photo in the left side bar of this page). I will send you an email attachment of the text as a PDF file so that you can either print it out yourself or read it on a digital reading device such as Kindle. I will expect you to honor my copyright and you will be asked to do your utter best to prevent the manuscript from being misused.

There are 28 chapters and various extras such as Table of Contents, Description of Characters, etc, which add up to just under 400 pages, so I haven't figured out yet whether to send them in parts or as a whole. If you have a preference or advice, please let me know.

Please feel free to ask me questions about this offer!
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