There is a certain melancholy about the ephemeral quality of the affairs, felt on both sides, but seemingly woven into their fabric."―Eric Boss, Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association (MPIBA) "These are wonderfully entertaining stories with an electricity enlivening the narrative of an astonishingly broad set of male-female encounters. "A short, subtle, and funny book that quietly upends notions of the demure Japanese woman searching for a salaryman husband."― Quartzy "The women in this collection are vibrant, lusty, and clearly the agents of their own love lives."― Kirkus Reviews " the Don Draper of Japanese fiction, the sort of person everyone knows without ever really knowing."―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. 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.
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. “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.”- DozoDomo (France)Įach woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. 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.
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