Novelist donates manuscript of bestseller to hometown museum

The original handwritten manuscript of popular Japanese writer Lily Franky's autobiographical novel "Tokyo Tower" is exhibited on Oct. 24, 2015, at the Kitakyushu Literature Museum in Kitakyushu, the author's hometown in southwestern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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