James Nicoll Reviews

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

Set My Heart on Fire

By Izumi Suzuki

8 Jan, 2025

**Translation**

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Izumi Suzuki’s 1983¹ Set My Heart on Fire is a mainstream semiautobiographical novel. First published as Hato ni hi wo tsukete! Dare ga kesuin [Ignite (one’s) heart! Who will extinguish (it)?], the 2024 English translation is by Helen O’Horan.

Twenty-three-year-old model Izumi fills her days and nights with music, sex, and drugs. What better way to spend the early 1970s?

Oh So Blue

Hit Parade of Tears

By Izumi Suzuki (Translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O'Horan & Daniel Joseph)

14 Dec, 2022

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2023’s Hit Parade of Tears is a collection of short stories by Izumi Suzuki. Translation is by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O’Horan, and Daniel Joseph.

Life is Such a Chore

Terminal Boredom: Stories

By Izumi Suzuki (Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi & Helen O’Horan)

18 Nov, 2020

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2021’s Terminal Boredom: Stories is a collection of short stories by Izumi Suzuki (1949 – 1985).Translations are by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan. This is the first English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s work.