Hiromi Kawakami (All press)
- Oct 21 2021
“Unique approach to character study.”
— Ploughshares - Jan 28 2020
Finalist for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize
— PEN America - Aug 9 2019
“agile, inventive fiction”
— Booklist - Jun 17 2019
“...vividly rendered individuals...”
— Kirkus Reviews - Jun 14 2019
Fiction: Tin-Eared Bureaucrats and Frayed Connections
— Wall Street Journal - May 25 2019
“...a neat little semi-ronde of a novel...”
— Complete Review - May 8 2019
HIROMI KAWAKAMI’S NEW NOVEL CHALLENGES STEREOTYPES ABOUT JAPANESE WOMEN
— Quartz - Jun 13 2018
Reading Pathways: Hiromi Kawakami Books
— BookRiot - Jun 4 2018
7 Must-Read Female Voices from Japan
— OZY - Dec 21 2017
AAWW Staff Picks: Best of 2017
— Asian American Writers Workshop: The Margins - Dec 15 2017
“a novel you read to discover the beauty in the ordinary.”
— April Magazine - Dec 13 2017
BOOKS WE’RE GIVING FOR THE HOLIDAYS: LYDIA’S PICKS
— Texas Book Festival - Dec 12 2017
75 Notable Translations of 2017
— World Literature Today - Nov 27 2017
The Anxiety of Intimacy in Hiromi Kawakami’s The Nakano Thrift Shop
— The Los Angeles Review of Books - Aug 11 2017
Fiction From Japan, for the Old World and the New
— New York Times Book Review - Jul 16 2017
The Stories Behind Ordinary Lives and Things
— Huffington Post - Jun 16 2017
The Best New Fiction
— The Wall Street Journal - Jun 16 2017
Summer Reading
— TIME - Jun 6 2017
Summer Books
— The Minneapolis Star Tribune - Apr 24 2017
“Kawakami is interested in the experience of working an incidental job...”
— Publishers Weekly - Mar 21 2017
“Charming and engrossing...”
— Kirkus Reviews - Mar 7 2017
“An agreeably wistful read”
— The Complete Review