The lost Japanese bestseller - a darkly funny and relatable book about five women in modern Japan, published in English for the very first time Izumi is divorced and unemployed, but is the alternative really so much better? Haruka has recovered from her cancer and everyone else thinks she should just forget all about it. Kato is invisible to her children and her husband, but at work at the convenience, no one will leave her alone. Mito can''t decide whether to accept her boyfriend''s marriage proposal, especially as she''s been cheating on him for months. Sumie just needs somewhere to live.

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Fumio Yamamoto burst onto the Japanese literary scene in 1999 when she won the Yoshikawa Eiji New Writer's Prize for her book Loveaholic. Her follow-up in 2000, The Dilemmas of Working Women, won the prestigious Naoki Prize in Literature, before becoming a bestselling phenomenon. Her final novel, Rotations and Revolutions, was awarded both the Shimasei Literature Prize and the Ch K ron Prize in 2021, and her journals, offering an intimate portrait of dealing with depression and then with pancreatic cancer, also became hugely popular. Yamamoto passed away in 2021 in Karuizawa, Nagano.

Brian Bergstrom is a lecturer and translator who has lived in Chicago, Kyoto, and Yokohama, and is currently based in Montréal. His most recent translations include Sunrise: Radiant Stories by award-winning author Erika Kobayashi and Slow Down by Marxist philosopher K hei Sait .

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The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women