All The Lovers In The Night

If a book can keep me enraptured for the whole journey I count that as pretty unputdownable . . . a brief, compelling study of alientation and friendship; I binge-read it in one sitting.Rebecca F Kuang, bestselling author of Babel

Kawakami’s novel is uncompromisingly candid in its appraisal of the harm women inflict on one another, while never losing sight of the overarching structures that lead them to do so in the first place. Compact and supple, it’s a strikingly intelligent feat.The New York Times Book Review

Her most accomplished novel yet . . . A contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmamentHamilton Cain, Oprah Daily (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022)

[An] engrossing, fine-boned new novel, deftly translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd . . . with this consummate novel, Kawakami’s star continues to rise, pulsing against a night that’s anything but holyHamilton Cain, The Washington Post