8 Oct, 2025
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Hiromi Kawakami’s fantastical 19961 Record of a Night Too Brief is billed as the third volume in Pushkin Press’ Japanese Novella series2. Record of a Night Too Brief isn’t really a novella, but a collection of works that are either novelettes or short stories. The 20173 English translation is by Lucy North.
14 May, 2025
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Hiromi Kawakami’s 2016 People From My Neighborhood is a collection of novellas and.. um… something like vignettes. The 2020 English translation is by Ted Goossen.
The narrator lives in a town filled with marvels, marvels they are determined to share with the reader.
16 Apr, 2025
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Hiromi Kawakami’s The Briefcase is a stand-alone1 slice-of-life romance novel. Translation is by Allison Markin Powell.
Thirty-eight-year-old office worker Tsukiko Omachi lives alone. It’s by pure chance that she encounters a near-stranger whom she only barely recognizes from her long-ago school days. As a result, their lives are transformed.
18 Sep, 2024
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Hiromi Kawakami’s 2016 Under the Eye of the Big Bird is a stand-alone science fiction novel. The 2024 translation is by Asa Yoneda.
Mother lives a perfectly conventional life, raising legions of animal-derived children created in the very factory where the latest of her short-lived husbands works. Mother sometimes has questions, but nothing truly upends her placid life. A life sometime in our future.
How did the world get to this state? Consider the first law of history: people are the problem.