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Kohei Araki, a dedicated lexicographer at Gembu Books, has spent 37 years building Japanese dictionaries. With retirement on the horizon, he seeks a successor and finds an unlikely protégé in Mitsuya Majime, a linguistics enthusiast with a love of rare books. Together, with a spirited new recruit and an elder scholar, they set out to complete The Great Passage, a massive 2,900‑page volume that charts the breadth of the Japanese language. Throughout the process, the characters form unexpected bonds, explore mutual respect, and learn how words connect people beyond the pages of a dictionary.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Humorous Fiction/Comedy Fiction
Authors: Shion Miura
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