The Ten Loves of Nishino - Paperback

by Hiromi Kawakami (Author), Allison Markin Powell (Translator)

"A short, subtle, and funny book that quietly upends notions of the demure Japanese woman searching for a salaryman husband." Quartzy

"Wonderfully entertaining stories with an electricity enlivening the narrative of an astonishingly broad set of male-female encounters." Eric Boss, MPIBA

Here are ten female voices that together tell the story of an enigmatic man. They tell their stories to fathom the unfathomable. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching story by one of Japan's most acclaimed writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Driven by desire and curiosity, the women in this book are at once familiar and mysterious, not unlike that cipher of a man, Mr. Nishino.

"If you like Haruki Murakami and Yōko Ogawa, it's a safe bet that you'll love The Ten Loves of Nishino." DozoDomo (France)

"The mysterious quality of Kawakami's work lies in its extraordinary allusive power, something that only

the greatest artists have." Robert Saladrigas, La Vanguardia (Spain)

Author Biography

Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan's most acclaimed and successful authors. Winner of numerous prizes for her fiction, including the Akutagawa, Ito Sei, Women Writers (Joryu Bungako Sho), and Izumi Kyoka prizes, she is the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop, a Wall Street Journal Best New Fiction pick, Strange Weather in Tokyo, Manazuru, and many many others. Her fiction has appeared in English in The Paris Review and Granta. She lives in Japan.

Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator and editor based in New York City. Her translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi, and she was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders. She maintains the database Japanese Literature in English at www.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.