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1 week ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Margaret Atwood |Stephen Snyder |Hiromi Kawakami |Asa Yoneda
‘Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do,’ Margaret Atwood famously said, often considered mother of the genre. ‘Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.’ Her comment emerged during a long-running (and occasionally heated) debate – one that saw her butt heads with SF titan Ursula K. Le Guin, who countered that speculative fiction is science fiction, and that trying to draw a line between them was merely splitting hairs.
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1 month ago | 
readings.com.au | Ibtisam Azem |Sinan Antoon |Hiromi Kawakami |Asa Yoneda
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Hiromi Kawakami |Ted Goossen |Walter Sim
In The Third Love, Hiromi Kawakami has spun an ambitious narrative of how the ideas of love, desire, sex, and heartbreak have shifted through the ages. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF HIROMI KAWAKAMI, GRANTA Updated Oct 05, 2024, 12:30 PM Published Oct 05, 2024, 12:30 PM The Third LoveBy Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted GoossenFiction/Granta/Paperback/288 pages/$26.24Riko, a contemporary Tokyoite, has traditional ideas about romance.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
redhot.sg | Hiromi Kawakami |Ted Goossen
The Third LoveBy Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted GoossenFiction/Granta/Paperback/288 pages/$26.24Riko, a contemporary Tokyoite, has traditional ideas about romance. She is smitten with Naruya Haruda, or affectionately Naa-chan, who is 10 years older, when she is just two years old and eventually marries him.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Hiromi Kawakami
This is the final story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. To be read on New Year’s Day, in the year 3000 A.D.It’s cold. The wind was really blowing last night, so this morning the waves are still a little high. Wind is scary. It makes all kinds of sounds when it blows. Whooshing. Howling. Rattling. Roaring. Out-of-the-ordinary sounds. Out-of-the-ordinary things are scary. It’s cold.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Hiromi Kawakami
Hiromi Kawakami’s fiction has long been haunted by lonely women. ‘I took the bus alone,’ recalls Tsukiko, the narrator of her prize-winning novel Strange Weather in Tokyo (2001), ‘I walked around the city alone, I did my shopping alone, and I drank alone.’ The story portrays the solace Tsukiko finds in the unlikely bond she forges with her one-time schoolmaster, whom she calls Sensei (‘Teacher’).
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
straitstimes.com | Hiromi Kawakami |Ted Goossen |Walter Sim
Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami. PHOTOS: STONE BRIDGE PRESS, RINKO KAWAUCHI Updated 34 sec ago Published 39 sec ago Dragon PalaceBy Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted GoossenFiction/Stone Bridge Press/Paperback/160 pages/$28.43/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3PMAXAx)4 starsJapanese writer Hiromi Kawakami provokes with her folkloric and mythical prose in Dragon Palace, which was first published 20 years ago in Japanese and is finally released in English.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
redhot.sg | Hiromi Kawakami |Ted Goossen
Dragon PalaceBy Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted GoossenFiction/Stone Bridge Press/Paperback/160 pages/$28.43/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3PMAXAx)4 starsJapanese writer Hiromi Kawakami provokes with her folkloric and mythical prose in Dragon Palace, which was first published 20 years ago in Japanese and is finally released in English.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Hiromi Kawakami
From the issue of July 10 & 17, 2023 I popped the stucco into my mouth. Then I chewed and chewed until, finally, I was able to swallow it. Once you dislodge the first piece, the rest is easy. Over and over, I stripped flakes of stucco from the crumbling wall and ate them. “You shouldn’t be eating that!” said a voice from under the refrigerator. That had to be the kitchen god. A kitchen god is small, has three faces, and lives in the dark corners of the kitchen.
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May 30, 2023 | 
stonebridge.com | Hiromi Kawakami |Ted Goossen
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty—in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don’t apply.
