Her work is an homage to melancholy, to impossibility or, perhaps even more accurately, to the constant state of indeterminateness that we humans unwittingly inhabit.'-Pablo D'Ors, ABC (Spain) 'You never know where Nishino's affections lay, but the lack of a sentimental compass and of certainties does not destroy the women he loves, but rather makes them stronger. The mysterious quality of Kawakami's work lies in its extraordinary allusive power, something that only the greatest artists have.'-Robert Saladrigas, La Vanguardia (Spain) 'Subtle and delicate, in its details Kawkami's prose traces the signs that the soul leaves on one's consciousness.'-Pere Guixà, El País 'Reading Kawakami is like taking a warm bath. Praise for The Ten Loves of Nishino 'Kawakami's writing is so carnal, beautiful, and stimulating for the reader that it does not need to be any more explicit. 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.

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.

'If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it's a safe bet that you'll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.'-DozoDomo (France) 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. WINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him.

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