16 Apr, 2025
Translation
Hiromi Kawakami’s The Briefcase is a stand-alone1 slice-of-life romance novel. Translation is by Allison Markin Powell.
Thirty-eight-year-old office worker Tsukiko Omachi lives alone. It’s by pure chance that she encounters a near-stranger whom she only barely recognizes from her long-ago school days. As a result, their lives are transformed.
18 Sep, 2024
Translation
Hiromi Kawakami’s 2016 Under the Eye of the Big Bird is a stand-alone science fiction novel. The 2024 translation is by Asa Yoneda.
Mother lives a perfectly conventional life, raising legions of animal-derived children created in the very factory where the latest of her short-lived husbands works. Mother sometimes has questions, but nothing truly upends her placid life. A life sometime in our future.
How did the world get to this state? Consider the first law of history: people are the problem.