A True Novel

A True Novel (本格小説, Honkaku Shōsetsu) is a novel by Japanese author Minae Mizumura. It is a loose retelling of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights set in post-World War II Japan. The novel was first serialized in the Japanese monthly literary journal Shinchō from January 2001 to January 2002. It was published in two volumes by Shinchosha in September 2002 and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 2003. The English translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter was published in two volumes by Other Press in November 2013, as part of the Japanese Literature Publishing Project initiated by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. It won the Next Generation Indie Book Awards' Grand Prize in Fiction in 2014.