'Arresting. . . a wonderful sleight-of-hand narrative that reveals so much while seemingly being very simple' Big Issue

'Quirky and delicate. . . timeless. . . I fell totally under the spell of this beautiful book' Daily Mail

'Charming. . . beguiling and beautiful' Times

'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 story of desire, envy, romantic mishap, star-crossed lovers, passion, courtship, infidelity, unrequited love and loneliness' -- --Herald

Born in 1958 in Tokyo, HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. She is the recipient of the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers and the Akutagawa Prize. Her novel Drowning won both the Ito Sei Literature Award and Joryu Bungaku Sho (Women Writers' Prize) in 2000. Her novel Manazuru won the 2011 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize. Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban) won the Tanizaki prize in 2001 and was shortlisted for both the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

ALLISON MARKIN POWELL has been awarded grants from English PEN, the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino. Her 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 atwww.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.