All The Lovers In The Night
Mieko Kawakami
Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd
12 May 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
From literary sensation and International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Mieko Kawakami, the bestelling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven comes All the Lovers in the Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.
'A brief, compelling study of alienation and friendship; I binge-read it in one sitting.' - Rebecca F Kuang, author of Babel
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Details
12 May 2022224 pages
9781509898275Imprint: Picador
Reviews
If a book can keep me enraptured for the whole journey I count that as pretty unputdownable . . . a brief, compelling study of alientation and friendship; I binge-read it in one sitting.Rebecca F Kuang, bestselling author of Babel
Kawakami’s novel is uncompromisingly candid in its appraisal of the harm women inflict on one another, while never losing sight of the overarching structures that lead them to do so in the first place. Compact and supple, it’s a strikingly intelligent feat.The New York Times Book Review
Her most accomplished novel yet . . . A contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmamentHamilton Cain, Oprah Daily (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022)
[An] engrossing, fine-boned new novel, deftly translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd . . . with this consummate novel, Kawakami’s star continues to rise, pulsing against a night that’s anything but holyHamilton Cain, The Washington Post
