EVENT DETAIL
FROM MURAKAMI TO THE SUN GODS
A Talk by Jay Rubin （Emeritus Professor of Harvard University）
- Lecture
- 09 / 20 / 16
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The Nippon Club will hold a special lecture by Jay Rubin who is well known as the translator of Haruki Murakami’s novels. The talk will discuss Mr. Rubin’s twenty-five years translating and studying the works of Murakami and take note of Murakami influences in his recent novel, The Sun Gods (published by Chin Music Press in May 2015). His account of the circumstances that led to writing the novel will conclude that identifying influences is no easy task. (This talk will be conducted in English.) Please join us for this fascinating talk! Ask your friends, co-workers and family members to attend, too.
Thursday, September 20th 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Nippon Club 2Fl. Rose Room
145 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
Members $ 15 / Non-members・Guests $20 （includes 1 drink）
For registration or Inquiry: The Nippon Club (Attn: Naito 212-581-2223 or hnaito@nipponclub.org)Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin was a Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Washington and Harvard University. Now he is an Emeritus Professor and lives near Seattle, Washington, where he continues to write and translate works of Haruki Murakami and other modern Japanese writers. His novel, The Sun Gods, set in Seattle during the Second World War, was published in 2015 and translated into Japanese as Hibi No Hikari by Motoyuki Shibata and Shunsuke Hiratsuka.
