All the Lovers in the Night

Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. 

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 Fuyuko 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.

"In the skilled hands of Bett and Boyd, Kawakami's prose is instantly recognizable-immediate, incisive, and unfailingly honest."-Katie Kitamura, Entertainment Weekly (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022)

Praise for All the Lovers in the Night

★ "The author dazzles with her exploration of emotions... An invigorating and empowering portrait. It's a winner."-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Praise for Heaven and Breasts and Eggs

"An argument in favor of meaning, of beauty, of life."-Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Times Book Review on Heaven

"You're certain to be astonished by Kawakami's latest novel exploring violence and bullying with fierce, feminist and damning candor."-Ms. Magazine on Heaven

"Heaven shows us how to think about morality as an ongoing, dramatic activity. It can be maddening and ruinous and isolating. But it can also be shared, enlivened through writing and conversation, and momentarily redeemed through unheroic acts of solidarity."-Merve Emre, The New Yorker

"Heaven is very likely to make you cry."-Lily Meyer, NPR

"Kawakami is a rising young star in the literary scene."-CNN Underscored

"Original and deeply moving… This book is a gift."-Laura van den Berg on Breasts and Eggs

"Fantastic."-Kat Chow, NPR, on Breasts and Eggs

"Stunning."-Financial Times, on Breasts and Eggs

"Kawakami writes with unsettling precision about the body…she is especially good at capturing its longings."-Katie Kitamura, The New York Times, on Breasts and Eggs

"I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs."-Haruki Murakami

"A unique, direct voice-almost every page contains sentences that stop me in my tracks."-Marta Bausells, LitHub

"Will transcend cultural barriers and enchant readers."-Alina Cohen, New York Observer