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Shion Miura

Born

in Tōkyō, Japan

September 23, 1976

Genre

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Shion Miura (三浦しをん) (1976–) , daughter of a well-known Japanese classics scholar, acquired her love of reading at a very young age. When, as a senior in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, she began her job hunt looking for an editorial position, a literary agent recognized her writing talent and hired her to begin writing an online book review column even before she graduated. Miura made her fiction debut a year after finishing college, in 2000, when she published the novel Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight), based in part on her own experiences during the job hunt. When she won the Naoki Prize in 2006 for her linked-story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town), she had not ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 24,140 ratings · 3,398 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Great Passage 3.81 avg rating — 11,767 ratings — published 2011 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1) by Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 6,620 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest, #2) by Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 2,152 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Run with the Wind by Shion Miura, Yui Kajita (Translator) 4.41 avg rating — 1,572 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiệm bá nghệ Tada trước ga Mahoro by Shion Miura, Phong (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Những vị khách của tiệm bá nghệ Tada (Tada's Do-It-All House #2) by Shion Miura, Nhật An (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El pez en la luna by Shion Miura, Rumi Sato (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	真幌站前狂騷曲 by Shion Miura, 三浦紫苑, 王蘊潔 (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	住那個家的四個女人 by Shion Miura, 三浦紫苑, 王華懋 (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ซิตี้มาราธอน by Shion Miura, Fumie Kondō, Atsuko Asano 3.68 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul. “People travel on it and gather the small points of light floating on the dark surface of the waves. They do this in order to tell someone their thoughts accurately, using the best possible words. Without dictionaries, all any of us could do is linger before the vastness of the deep.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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“Words and the human heart that creates them are absolutely free, with no connection to the powers that be.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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