Jan Blensdorf
Praise for My Name Is Sei Shonagon
[An] exquisitely written observation of contemporary Japan... Jan Blensdorf is from Australia, but her sensitive perceptions of a society in crisis make this modern pillow book well worth its plucking from the publi ...
Guardian
Cultural observations float through her prose like butterflies, but sting like a bee in the end
Liza Dalby
A poetic tale about the social constraints and collective unconscious of modern Japan... Like the Japanese calligraphy the narrator is taught, Blensdorf's sparse prose creates word-paintings of great subtlety
Literary Review
[An] exquisitely written observation of contemporary Japan... Jan Blensdorf is from Australia, but her sensitive perceptions of a society in crisis make this modern pillow book well worth its plucking from the publi ...
Guardian
Cultural observations float through her prose like butterflies, but sting like a bee in the end
Liza Dalby
A poetic tale about the social constraints and collective unconscious of modern Japan... Like the Japanese calligraphy the narrator is taught, Blensdorf's sparse prose creates word-paintings of great subtlety
Literary Review
[An] exquisitely written observation of contemporary Japan... Jan Blensdorf is from Australia, but her sensitive perceptions of a society in crisis make this modern pillow book well worth its plucking from the publi ...
Guardian
Cultural observations float through her prose like butterflies, but sting like a bee in the end
Liza Dalby
A poetic tale about the social constraints and collective unconscious of modern Japan... Like the Japanese calligraphy the narrator is taught, Blensdorf's sparse prose creates word-paintings of great subtlety
Literary Review