Hiromi Kawakami

  • The Third Love

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    A time-bending story of love, desire, and destiny that sways between Japan’s past and its present–from a courtesan of Yoshiwara in Edo to a serving lady of the Heian period to a wife and mother in th[more below]

    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593768052
    • Language: English
  • Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593768079
    • Language: English
  • Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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    From one of Japan’s most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of [more below]

    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1593766114
    • Language: English
  • Record of a Night Too Brief

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    “Evocative… Astonishing, strange, and wonderful” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, tal

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    • Series: Japanese Novellas
    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 180533140X
    • Language: English
  • Manazuru

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    Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.

    Twelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and s

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 14 2017
    • ISBN10: 1640090185
    • Language: English
  • The Ten Loves of Nishino

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    WINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

    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 h

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 1609455339
    • Language: English
  • Parade: A Folktale

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    “A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . An ethereal, resonating literary gift” (Booklist, starred review) from the internationally bestselling author of Strange Weat[more below]

    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1593765800
    • Language: English
  • The Nakano Thrift Shop

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    This “gentle, humorous novel” follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker (The Wall Street Journal).

    The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as comm

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: June 06 2017
    • ISBN10: 1609453999
    • Language: English
  • Dragon Palace

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    Included in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023

    Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality,
    myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology,
    and destin

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: 19-Sep-23
    • ISBN10: 1737625350
    • Language: English
  • Strange Weather in Tokyo

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    Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.

    Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she

    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 14, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1640090169
    • Language: English
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