Far From Everywhere
$25.49
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2027
Summary
Take the train from central Tokyo and head west. In twenty minutes, hop off and here you are: far from anywhere, but right in the heart of everything.
Here, you’ll meet a widowed fishmonger who invites his dead wife’s former lover to move in, a fortune teller who helps a friend down on his luck, a young woman who learns her mother-in-law’s secret over a late night snack of tea and rice crackers, and, at the local restaurant, the cook and the server whose on/off relationship might be b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803515311 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1803515317 |
| Author: | Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell |
| Publisher: | Granta Publications Ltd |
| Imprint: | Granta Publications Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 216mm |
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Hiromi Kawakami
Hiromi Kawakami
Hiromi Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958. In 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for Strange Weather in Tokyo, which became an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize.
Her other fiction in translation includes:
- The Nakano Thrift Shop
- The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
- People from My Neighbourhood
- The Third Love
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025.
Kawakami has contributed to editions of Granta in both the UK and Japan and is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists.
Allison Markin Powell
Allison Markin Powell has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino.
Her translations include works by:
- Osamu Dazai
- Fuminori Nakamura
- Shiori Ito
- Kanako Nishi
She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders and she maintains the database Japanese Literature in English.
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