Love at Least
A Novel
$31.44
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a series of darkly comic domestic disasters that lead her to question whether she is worthy of love.
Twenty-five-year-old Yasuko has been living with her kind but apathetic boyfriend Tsunaki for three years. During this time, she has battled waves of depression and hypersomnia, staying in bed for days on end, mired in ennui.
When Tsunaki begins working longer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593768317 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1593768311 |
| Author: | Yukiko Motoya, Kamil Spychalski |
| Publisher: | Soft Skull Press |
| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
”[A] biting, darkly funny novel.” —Sophia June, Marie Claire
“Motoya balances a raw, unfiltered examination of a woman pixilated by mental illness with an anti-love story that unsettles and lingers.” —Booklist
Yukiko Motoya
YUKIKO MOTOYA is the author of The Lonesome Bodybuilder. She won the Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016, the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; and the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014.
KAMIL SPYCHALSKI is a Japanese-English translator and the winner of the 7th JLPP International Translation Competition. His translations include Taiyo Fujii’s “Prayer,” which appeared in The Best of World SF Volume 1, and Summer’s Passage, a prize-winning novella by Kenji Maruyama. He lives in Fukuoka.
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