ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT: Mieko Kawakami & Ruth Ozeki in conversation

Mieko Kawakami, the international bestselling author of BREASTS AND EGGS and HEAVEN, presents her new novel ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT in conversation with Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki, bestselling author of A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING and THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS.
With ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT, 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 freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.
As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko’s past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it.
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[@Nana-yl3cu]

Thank you for this wonderful conversation between a Japanese writer and an American writer who happen to be women. As humans, we need to hear these voices. Nanako Water

[@Rainierbooks]

If anyone is interested in poor people in Japan, there is Yu Miri's great novel "Ueno Station". Thanks for this great talk!! Love Mieko's books.

[@jonathanpeto8418]

It's too hard for me, but I've been trying to read All the Lovers in the Night in Japanese. Thanks Mieko for writing it! And thanks Ruth for reminding me to look beyond the surface meaning!

[@ackermansslave161]

Amazing! Can't wait to get this book! Great Interview

[@corneliastr5003]

as well