Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature Winner of the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese LanguageA bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power.May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in