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Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Pushkin Press,paperback)

Publication Date:May7, 2019

Publisher Marketing:Machi Tawara’s first book of poems,SaladAnnivsersary, combines the classical ‘tanka’ form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies – and the ‘salad phenomenon’ in Japanese culture was comparable to the ‘bananamania’ that followed publication of the first novel by Tawara’s contemporary Banana Yoshimoto.