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From the International Booker Prize Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko...

'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami, international bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing...

Award-winning Japanese author and poet Mieko Kawakami brings Ashes of Spring, a collection of short stories set in everyday life in Japan just before the pandemic lockdown.

'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying. In Heaven, a...

'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami' – Haruki Murakami 'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today' – The Times A heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted...

Bestselling author of BREASTS AND EGGS, Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a...

Ein Brief, den ich Ihnen geschrieben habe, als ich im Krankenhaus war – "Ao over blue". Zwei Frauen, die sich in einem Luxushotel einem Vorstellungsgespräch unterziehen, um bezahlt zu werden – "Wenn Ihre Nase nur etwas größer wäre." Eine alte Frau im Sterben und eine Haushälterin mit großem Rücken – "Vase". Ein Schriftsteller mit genau demselben Geburtsdatum wie Sie begeht Selbstmord – "Ruf mich an, wenn Sie sich einsam fühlen." Meine Freundin und ich haben uns in eine Abendschule geschlichen und nach einem wichtigen Brief gesucht – "Blue Ink".

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. "I have a feeling I won’t forget Hana, perpetually running up life’s down escalator, willing to...