Touring the Land of the Dead

Maki Kashimada

Haydn Trowell

Key Selling Points:

• Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, “Japan’s National Book Award”


• Major new Japanese literary talent


• Print, online, social media campaign


• Author interviews, literary festivals


• Video and visual assets: author interviews and readings, book teaser, e-cards


• Proofs: physical and on NetGalley

Target readership:

• Readers of literary fiction, literature in translation, Japanese fiction,


• Readers of Yoko Ogawa, Fernanda Melchor, Yuko Tsashima, Mieko Kawakami

Sales Comps: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, Hurricane Season by Fernand Melchor, Territory of Light by Yuko Tshashima, Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami