The Great Passage

by Shion Miura

2017 222 pages eng ★ 4.7 (3 ratings)

"Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it's time for him to retire and find his repla…