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Adding a new book: The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist
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author name "sachiko" according publisher & worldcat...
some addition from worldcat (page count 189 & ISBN10)...
please check again if there is any mistake made...
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or alternatively; The Mysterious Town Beyond the Mist (I think the translation can mean both those things, the book is in Japanese and translated to English).
JAPANESE AUTHOR: Sashiko Kashiwaba. TRANSLATOR: Christopher Holmes.
ISBN: 978-4-908001-00-0
PUBLISHER: The Japanese Literature Publishing Project.
PUBLISH DATE: The original Japanese story by Kashiwaba was published in 1974 and first translated in 1987, this book published by JLPP and translated by Christopher Holmes was published in 2014.
FORMAT: Paperback.
Description: This was the story that inspired Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. Winner of the 1974 Kodansha Award for New Writers of Children's Literature, and the JAWC New Talent Award.
"Sixth-grader Lina spends a summer vacation in the Misty Valley, where her encounters with the eccentric residents there help her grow. A brilliant work of juvenile literature that served as inspiration for the Studio Ghibli animated film Spirited Away."
(taken from j-lit.or.jp website).
For more info on the author and this book, here are links from the publishers (can you use the photo cover from the publishers? Not sure?)
http://booksfromjapan.jp/authors/auth...
http://www.j-lit.or.jp/publications/
COVER from publisher's site: http://tajera.com/jlitcorp/wp-content...
There is also some illustration in the book, but neither the Publisher's site nor my book mentions the illustrator?