Publishers Weekly, August 20th, 2001
"My role here was much more Dino DeLaurentiis than Max Perkins," Wendy Wolf says with a laugh. The Viking executive editor laughs a lot, which has come in handy during the seven years it has taken this particular project to come off the press. How often does an editor find herself working on a novel that was written in another world, in another language, 1,000 years ago? A novel, of 1,200 pages, heavy enough to function admirably as a doorstop, but elegant enough to fill two volumes of a coffee-table-worthy $60 boxed set? The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (aka Lady Murasaki) is the Japane...
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