Review: The Great Passage

The Great Passage by Shion Miura
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a book I received through Amazon's World Book Day promotion in 2018.

This was probably my favorite of all of the World Book Day books. I loved diving into the world of dictionary-making, which is something I had never given any thought to. It was amazing to me to read about the passion that the characters have for their work in a field I never even thought about existing.

It also doesn't hurt that I am of Japanese descent and understand Japanese. I don't think I could read this book in the original Japanese by itself, but it might be something I can do if I have both the translation and the original side-by-side. I appreciated many of the words being left in Japanese so that I could appreciate the full subtleties, rather than try to guess at what the original might have meant from a translation into English.

Definitely good enough for me to want a paper copy.

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