Kawakami's novel treats its feminist themes with a light hand but still slyly lands its points. Winner 2020 Pen Translation Prize Praise for The Ten Loves of Nishino "If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it's a safe bet that you'll love The Ten Loves of Nishino." - DozoDomo (France) "Agile, inventive fiction." - Booklist "An intriguing portrayal of romantic attachment." - The New Yorker "The women in this collection are vibrant, lusty, and clearly the agents of their own love lives. Kawakami (Record of a Night Too Brief, 2017, etc.) explores desire and the elusive nature of love through the voices of 10 women who all loved the same man. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching novel by one of Japan's best-selling and most beloved writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Nishino is a quirky character full of charisma and I have to say that I was rather fond of him at first.
Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, ten women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino. Hiromi Kawakami tells the story of Mr Yukihiko Nishino at various points in this life through the eyes of ten women, his loves. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Les 10 Amours de Nishino est une chanson qu'on murmure voix basse et qui nous envote l'infini.' - Christine Ferniot, L'Express 'Through his various incarnations, Nishino becomes a catalyst for each woman to explore her own feelings and sexuality. The story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him at one point in their lives.
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