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All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Mirai Booth-Ong
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About this listen

Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites listeners back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this extraordinary new 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 Fuyoku 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 listeners 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.

©2022 Mieko Kawakami (P)2022 W F Howes Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature

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it was very slow at the start but once i got about halfway into the story, it began to consumed all of my day!!. god the writing style of Japanese authors are something else!!

slow

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Meiko Kawakami is an incredible author brought to my attention by the recommendation from Haruki Marakami I absolutely LOVE her books. My least favourite was Heaven but I love this and Breasts and Eggs - so pleased I tried more than one. I want to read everything she writes. And this narrator is truly brilliant

Exquisite narration of exquisite book

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Another gorgeous book from this talented author! Kawakami writes with such a gentle clarity, you feel as though you’re sinking into each character you follow through her novels. They’re beautifully real and present.

Beautiful, calm, evocative!

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Such intriguing, yet gentle story, it left me wanting to know more about the characters.

Intriguing and haunting.

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one of the better books i've encountered so far written by Japanese writers. i have actually found all of this author's books quite good so far.
some difficult themes in there (rape, alcoholism, a frivolous lifestyle, patriarchy, misogyny, apathy, drifting from lack of direction), all in a fairly short book, with interesting characters. my only comment would be that i felt the dark themes were presented too dialled back. i would have liked it to either be more critical or more dramatic in regards to the things portrayed, to highlight a stronger message. otherwise, i felt the book was heartbreaking, with characters portraying very tragic circumstances...not the easiest listen.
good performance for the audio format.

difficult story

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Superbly written. I was completely drawn into someone else's mindset and view of life.
It is a gentle exploration of one person's struggle to interact with other people. Totally engrossing.

Completely absorbing

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