STAFF PICK THE TEN LOVES OF NISHINO Novel by Hiromi Kawakami The story consists of ten chapters, woman exhibits a very unique and spanning Yukihiko Nishino’s life from striking character in her own way. his teenage years to his death. They are all talking about their memo- In each chapter, a different narrator ries of the same man, but for some talks about their relationship with reason, you will find him different in Yukihiko Nishino. Nishino is a good- every relationship. You will see how he looking, kind, sensitive and romantic tried to love each woman, but wonder man, and all ten women cannot help whether he really loved anyone. Was themselves fall for him. he ever happy himself? Those are the From beginning to end, the tone of questions you will ask yourself after voice is relaxed and mellow, yet I reading this “humorous, sensual, and Title: The Ten Loves of couldn’t stop reading because each touching novel.” Nishino — Ayumi, Library Manager Author: Hiromi Kawakami April, 2020 about author Publisher: Europa Editions Year: 2019 Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan’s most acclaimed and successful authors. Winner of numerous prizes for her fiction, including the Akutagawa prize in Pages: 240 1996. She is the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop, a Wall Street Journal Best New Translated by Fiction pick, Strange Weather in Tokyo, Manazuru, and many more. Allison Markin (translated — from Publisher Kawakami’s Strange Weather in Tokyo (2014), Fuminori Nakamura’s Last Winter, We Parted (2014), and many others.) Other works by author include: Call no. 895.635 K38 T46 2019 Item no. 00026481 Original Japanese: Nishino Yukihiko no koi to boken ニシノユキヒコの恋と冒険 Shinchosha, 2006 .