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For literary and translated fiction. Member of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 shadow panel (#MBI2018)
For not so long ago, I sent my new Midori passport notebook to Baum-Kuchen for a personal customization. “Filling in my 2022 calendar insert,” I replied, “for my new Traveler’s Notebook.” My newly embossed cover has wabi-sabi embossed in the center, with my initials down below. It is a term I want to fully embrace, and now I can with this reminder on the cover of my new notebook.
It is a great luxury to have the time, although not necessarily the ability, to sit with a book and contemplate the layers of color being laid down to enrich an already beautiful work of art. I was thrilled that Penguin Random House sent me the Fragile World coloring book by Kerby Rosanes this week. “Fragile World is a coloring book to savor, exploring fifty-six endangered, vulnerable, and threatened animals and landscapes—from the Tapanuli orangutan to the hawksbill turtle, from the Philippine bay caves to the Baltic Sea. Fragile World will be available March 16 for $15.00 from Penguin Random House.
It was established in the garden of Bell Gardia, at the foot of Kujira-yama, just next to the city of Otsuchi, which is one of the places most severely struck by the tsunami of March 11, 2011. Perhaps pain is what gives our lives depth, she pondered…” ”…when people disappear from our everyday lives, it doesn’t mean that they vanish completely. For even if we have not suffered the pain of losing loved ones in the tsunami, we surely bear pain of another kind. I like to find ways to solve it in the books that I read, and I have found some of the most gentle, and comforting, strategies within the pages of The Phonebooth At the Edge of The World.
At the center was this question: What does it mean to love another human being, particularly in an age when we’re questioning whether we can map out everything about a person through data and algorithms? And while I appreciate that Ishiguro tried to address the issue of love in an age of “data and algorithms”, for me the book fell short of that. Because the Sun provides its “special nourishment” to Klara, she goes to Mr. McBain’s barn (where she can see it set) to ask the Sun to heal Josie. It was bizarre to me, though, to read about a robot essentially praying to the Sun, and then realizing that her prayer was at first unheard because she hadn’t done anything about the pollution caused by a huge machine outside the store where she stood in the window.