{"product_id":"the-ten-loves-of-nishino-paperback","title":"The Ten Loves of Nishino - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHiromi Kawakami\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAllison Markin Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A short, subtle, and funny book that quietly upends notions of the demure Japanese woman searching for a salaryman husband.\" \u003cem\u003eQuartzy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderfully entertaining stories with an electricity enlivening the narrative of an astonishingly broad set of male-female encounters.\" Eric Boss, MPIBA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you like Haruki Murakami and Yōko Ogawa, it's a safe bet that you'll love \u003cem\u003eThe Ten Loves of Nishino\u003c\/em\u003e.\" DozoDomo (France)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The mysterious quality of Kawakami's work lies in its extraordinary allusive power, something that only \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe greatest artists have.\" Robert Saladrigas, \u003cem\u003eLa Vanguardia \u003c\/em\u003e(Spain)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHiromi Kawakami\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nakano Thrift Shop\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003eBest New Fiction pick, \u003cem\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManazuru\u003c\/i\u003e, and many many others. Her fiction has appeared in English in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllison Markin Powell\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53476318642483,"sku":"9781609455330","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ten-loves-of-nishino-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}