All the Lovers in the Night: A Novel

Bestselling author of Breasts & Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel & demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, & talented novelists.

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working & 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 & notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, & spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life & decides to do something about it.

As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko's past surface & her behavior slips further & further...

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Mieko Kawakami is the author of the international bestseller Breasts and Eggs, a 2020 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the highly acclaimed Heaven, one of TIME’s Best Books of 2021. Her most recent novel is All the Lovers in the Night, which Hamilton Cain described as “her most accomplished novel yet” in Oprah Daily. Born in Osaka, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006, and in 2007 published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World. Known for their poetic qualities, insights into the female body, and preoccupation with ethics & modern society, her books have been translated into over twenty languages & are available all over the world. Kawakami’s literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, & the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo.