'If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, its a safe bet that youll love The Ten Loves of Nishino. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. 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. 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. THE TEN LOVES OF NISHINO by Hiromi Kawakami translated by Allison Markin Powell RELEASE DATE: JKawakami ( Record of a Night Too Brief, 2017, etc.) explores desire and the elusive nature of love through the voices of 10 women who all loved the same man, Nishino Yukihiko, at different points in their lives and his. If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino. 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. 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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