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A Profile of the author of the new book “Vanishing World,” plus “Convenience Store Woman,” both translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Elif Batuman reports.
Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. Her books include the novel “ Either/Or .”
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