 The English translation was published in two volumes in 2013 by Other Press, with a translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter.The novel was published in English as part of the Japanese Literature Publishing Project initiated by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.In Long Island, a teenage Minae Mizumura meets Taro Azuma, another Japanese immigrant who works as the chauffeur of one of her father's associates who, unlike Mizumura and the other immigrants she knows, is poor.