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All the lovers in the night / Mieko Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

Kawakami, Mieko, 1976- (author.). Bett, Sam, 1986- (translator.). Boyd, David (David G.), (translator.). Kawakami, Mieko, 1976- translation of: Subete mayonaka no koibitotachi. English. (Added Author).

Summary:

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it. As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko's past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it.

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  • ISBN: 9781609456993 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 221 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Europa Editions, [2022]

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General Note:
Translation of: Subete mayonaka no koibitotachi.
Language Note:
Translated from the Japanese.

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Subject: Change > Fiction.
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Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    A freelance editor in Tokyo finds the strength to change her drab, lonely existence only to have episodes from her past drag her back into old habits, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Breasts and Eggs.
  • Perseus Publishing

    FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

    A BEST BOOK OF 2022
    Oprah Daily·TIME Magazine·Washington Post·Publishers Weekly·Lit Hub

    Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. 

    Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.

    As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko’s past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it.

    “In the skilled hands of Bett and Boyd, Kawakami’s prose is instantly recognizable—immediate, incisive, and unfailingly honest.”—Katie Kitamura, Entertainment Weekly (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022)

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