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The Most Important Journey of Joanna Bator In 2002, cultural scientist Joanna Bator arrives in Japan for her first scholarship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After several returns, in 2011, Joanna Bator – the writer – leaves Japan. It is in Tokyo that her debut Sand Mountain is created, a groundbreaking novel for the author herself and contemporary Polish literature, as well as Dark, Almost Night, a book awarded the Nike Literary Award. But first was The Japanese Fan, a collection of reports honored with the Beata Pawlak Award. It records encounters, delights and illuminations but also attempts to answer questions that arise in everyday meetings with the Other. The book – an extraordinary personal guide without which it is impossible to understand contemporary Japan. I present to readers another edition of a book that records the greatest and most important journey of my life. In total, I spent four years in Japan, but the first two during which I wrote The Japanese Fan had a special charm of novelty and remain in my memory like a luminous gift. excerpt from the Introduction Joanna Bator – winner of the Nike Literary Award, Beata Pawlak Award, Hermann Hesse Literary Award, Stefan Heim Literary Award, Usdomer Literary Prize and Swiss Spycher Literature Prize. Author of bestsellers translated into many languages including recently adapted Dark, Almost Night.