3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Book review: Natsuo Kirino tackles ethics and morality in surrogacy tale Swallows
By Natsuo Kirino, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Fiction/Canongate Books/Paperback/334 pages/$29.09
The rather enigmatic one-word English title of Natsuo Kirino's novel fails to capture the nuances of the Japanese title. First published as Tsubame Wa Modotte Konai in 2022 and made into a television series in 2024, the work's full name is more accurately translated as The Swallows Don't Return.
