Name: The ten Loves of Nishino
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Author: Kawakami, Hiromi ; Powell, Allison Markin
ISBN: 9781609455330

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by

Allison Markin Powell

Publisher

Europa Editions

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781609455330

Synopsis "The ten Loves of Nishino "

Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him. “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.”—DozoDomo (France) Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, ten women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching novel by one of Japan’s best-selling and most beloved writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. A little like Nishino himself.

Hiromi Kawakami

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Hiromi Kawakami (Tokyo, 1958) is an acclaimed Japanese writer, awarded with prestigious prizes such as the Akutagawa and the Tanizaki. Her works, among which "The Briefcase" and "The Ten Loves of Nishino" stand out, subtly explore the complexities of human relationships.

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