Why A 19th Century American Slave Memoir Is Becoming A Bestseller In Japan's Bookstores

No one imagined that the Japanese translation of the book, "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861), would become a long-selling hit in Japan when it was first published there in 2013. But readers across the country found something they identified with.

from Forbes Real Time https://www.forbes.com/sites/adelsteinjake/2017/11/15/why-a-19th-century-american-slave-memoir-is-becoming-a-bestseller-in-japans-bookstores/
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