Tetsuo Miura
Tetsuo Miura was born in 1931 in Aomori, Japan. His awards inculde the Akutagawa Prize for Literarture, the Noma Literary Prize, the Japan Literature Grand Prize, the Osaragi Jiro Prize, and the Kawabata Prize. Shame in the Blood is the author's first book translated into English.
“Whether it succeeded or not was of secondary importance; first, I had to do it. Then I would experience the fullness of life as I went along. That was my only possible way of living.”
Tetsuo Miura
“We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.”
Tetsuo Miura
“Shino looked at me straight in the eye and smiled, her face brimming with a kind of inner strength. That strength seemed to gather the beads of perspiration that glistened on her brow, then sprang from her face and leapt across to my heart with a rhythm like ripples on water.”
Tetsuo Miura