The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

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Who loves Mr Nishino

Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.
Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances.
His colleague Manami should know better.
His conquest Reiko treasures her independence above all else.
Friends Tama and Subaru find themselves playing Nishino's game, but Eriko loves her cat more.
Sayuri is older, Aichan is much younger, and Misono has her own conquests to make.

For each of them, an encounter with elusive womaniser Mr Nishino will bring torments, desires and delights.

Reviews

Charming... beguiling and beautiful * Times *
Quirky and delicate...timeless...I fell totally under the spell of this beautiful book * Daily Mail *
Arresting... a wonderful sleight-of-hand narrative that reveals so much while seemingly being very simple * Big Issue *
A story of desire, envy, romantic mishap, star-crossed lovers, passion, courtship, infidelity, unrequited love and loneliness * Herald *
Endlessly thought-provoking, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino is all the more remarkable for couching its insights in such accessible terms * Asian Review of Books *
[A] short, sharp novel... The author's minimal and restrained style perfectly suits her subtle way of questioning human perception... Beautiful * Monocle *

Author Bio

Born in 1959 in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists, famous for her literary, off-beat fiction. She is the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop and Strange Weather in Tokyo, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Allison Markin Powell's translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi. She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders and she maintains the database, Japanese Literature in English, at http://www.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.