Emily Itami
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
A wry and tender novel from the author of Fault Lines about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer, for readers of Hello Beautiful and Blue Sisters.
Rei, Kiki, and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in London; Kiki is the single mother of a young son, working in a retirement home in Tokyo; and Ai, the youngest, is a peripatetic Japanese music idol. Having lost...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
When music idol Ai is embroiled in scandal, her sisters, ambitious Rei and single mother Kiki, pause their lives and spend the summer with Ai in their childhood home on the Japanese coast so they can rescue their baby sister.
4) Tokio
Author
Series
¡Buen viaje! volume 1
Publication Date
2026
Language
Spanish
Description
Anna y Tsubasa se conocieron en Tokio cuando eran niños. Veinte años después, el azar los reúne de nuevo y comienzan a escribirse.
Anna vive ahora en Londres; Tsubasa le habla de la cultura que pudo haber sido la suya, de una ciudad donde todo está tan perfectamente organizado que el caos acecha en cada esquina, donde regalar es un arte, quedarse dormido en una reunión es un signo de entrega y nunca, jamás, se debe poner salsa de soja al arroz.
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