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L ately I’m back into translation work. Not that I left it for a while, in fact, once you are a translator, you’re always alert to the way people translating things – unnecessarily novels, subtitles, formal letters or other type of manuscript but to the extent of sign boards on the road or shops’ names (yeah call us crazy, or, maniac or whatever you like) but that’s the thing about translators. There could be a lot of reasons for us to be super alert to translations but as for (amateur) me, I like to learn and improve my translation skills and one way to do so is to see other people’s works. So, here I’m going to share one of the books I’ve read last year, in 2014; a book by Nobel Prize Nominee, Haruki MURAKAMI, 'Onna no inai otoko-tachi' which is a compilation of 6 short stories. I’m not going to give a review on the book so let’s skip to the excerpt that I think is interesting. To give you the picture of the story, this chapter is about a wealthy cosmetic surgery’s speci...