Mieko Kawakami

All The Lovers In The Night

Buch

Shy, lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader. About to turn thirty-five, she cannot imagine ever having any emotional or successful relationship in her life as it currently stands. She is regularly haunted by encounters of the past.But Fuyuko loves the light and goes out on the night of her birthday, Christmas Eve, to count the lights.Her only friend, Hijiri, offers some light in her life, but it is a chance encounter with another man, Mr. Mitsutsuka, a physics teacher, who offers her access from another dimension to light.Pulsing, poetic, modern and shocking, The Night Belongs to L… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bett, Sam (Übers.) / Boyd, David (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-5098-9826-8
EAN: 9781509898268
Produktnummer: 37592865
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.5 cm 258 g
Gewicht: 258
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Mieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Breasts and Eggs, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME's Best 10 Books of 2020. Born in Osaka, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006, and published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, in 2007. Her writing is known for its poetic qualities and its insights into the female body, ethical questions, and the dilemmas of modern society. Her works have been translated into many languages and are available all over the world. She has received numerous prestigious literary awards in Japan for her work, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo, Japan.