All The Lovers In The Nigh (s)

Employing dazzlingly realised themes of light and emotional illumination, this lyrical, often shocking novel from the author of Breasts and Eggs revolves around a proofreader in her mid-30s and a physics teacher who offers her a shot at salvation. From the acclaimed author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven.

Shy, lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader. About to turn thirty-five, she cannot imagine ever having any emotional or successful relationship in her life as it currently stands. She is regularly haunted by encounters of the past.

But Fuyuko loves the light and goes out on the night of her birthday, Christmas Eve, to count the lights. Her only friend, Hijiri, offers some light in her life, but it is a chance encounter with another man, Mr. Mitsutsuka, a physics teacher, who offers her access from another dimension to light.

Pulsing, poetic, modern and shocking, All The Lovers in The Night is the third novel from internationally bestselling author Mieko Kawakami.

Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

MEDIA REVIEWS

'Kawakami's novel is uncompromisingly candid in its appraisal of the harm women inflict on one another, while never losing sight of the overarching structures that lead them to do so in the first place. Compact and supple, it's a strikingly intelligent feat.' - The New York Times Book Review

'Her most accomplished novel yet... a contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmament .'- Hamilton Cain

'Kawakami - the author of titles such as Breasts and Eggs and Heaven - has crafted another atmospheric, subtly beautiful novel.' - TIME Magazine

'Kawakami has an effortless way of turning the mundanity of Fuyoko's day-to-day into detailed occasions that I want to know more about... though the everyday is more interesting than you'd think, this is a book that's really about Fuyoko discovering happiness.' - Stylist