02143cam a2200385 i 4500 555091663 TxAuBib 20220428120000.0 211021s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781609456993 HRD 28.00 1609456998 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Kawakami, Mieko. Subete mayonaka no koibitotachi English. All the lovers in the night / Mieko Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd. New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2022. 221 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it. As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko's past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it. 20220428. jz. Women editors Fiction. Single women Fiction. Change Fiction. City and town life Fiction. Tokyo (Japan) Fiction. Japan Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Bett, Sam, translator. Boyd, David., translator.