The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino - Softcover

Hiromi Kawakami

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846276977 ISBN 13: 9781846276972

Publisher: Granta, 2019

Who loves Mr Nishino? Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love. Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances. His colleague Manami should know better. His conquest Reiko treasures her independence above all else. Friends Tama and Subaru find themselves playing Nishino's game, but Eriko loves her cat more. Sayuri is older, Aichan is much younger, and Misono has her own conquests to make. For each of them, an encounter with elusive womaniser Mr Nishino will bring torments, desires and delights.

Review:

'Arresting. . . a wonderful sleight-of-hand narrative that reveals so much while seemingly being very simple' Big Issue

'Quirky and delicate. . . timeless. . . I fell totally under the spell of this beautiful book' Daily Mail

'Charming. . . beguiling and beautiful' Times

'Endlessly thought-provoking, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino is all the more remarkable for couching its insights in such accessible terms' Asian Review of Books

'A story of desire, envy, romantic mishap, star-crossed lovers, passion, courtship, infidelity, unrequited love and loneliness' -- --Herald

About the Author:

Born in 1959 in Tokyo, HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists, famous for her literary, off-beat fiction. She is the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop and Strange Weather in Tokyo, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ALLISON MARKIN POWELL's translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi. She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders and she maintains the database, Japanese Literature in English, at http://www.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.

• Publisher: Granta
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1846276977
• ISBN 13: 9781846276972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208