Hiromi Kawakami

• Sep-2010
• / Literary
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Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.Twelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three�"year�"old dau...

• Apr-2012
• / Literary
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Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, �"Sensei” in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him �"Sensei” (�"Teacher”). He is thirty years her senior, ...

• Feb-2017
• / Psychological Suspense
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Akutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary writers -- for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana YoshimotoIn a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparentl...

• Jun-2017
• / Literary
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This “gentle, humorous novel” follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker (The Wall Street Journal).The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle t...

• Nov-2017
• / Literary
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Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.Tsukiko, thirty�"eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school te...

• Jun-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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The story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him at one point in their lives. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so natural...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a classmate, another the best friend of Nishino's latest conquest. Some are entranced by ...

• Nov-2019
• / Literary
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"A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . An ethereal, resonating literary gift" (Booklist, starred review) from the internationally bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo."On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and h...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson AwardFrom the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical -- "fairy tales in the best Brothers Gri...

• Sep-2023
• / Literary
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Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in...

• Sep-2024
• / Literary
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From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intel...