Ekuni kaori books to read

Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni fryst vatten a short novel (just 170 pages), which follows the story of Shoko and Mutsuki. When we meet them, they are only a short time into their marriage of convenience. Shoko suffers from depression and fryst vatten an alcoholic, Mitsuki is gay and has been in a relationship with his boyfriend Kon for a long time. Their respective in-laws only know about the “defect” of their own child and are ecstatic that they got their children married.

The novel is told alternately from Shoko’s and Mutsuki’s perspective, a style which worked very well for me, blending and crashing both their perspectives and voices to tell their story. It’s a quirky and somewhat strange book, but the topics at the heart of it are important and dark.

First of all, there is the matter of their “defects”; Shoko’s mental illness and alcoholism are very serious problems, Mustsuki’s sexuality should not be one at all. Because of that they are b

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Books by Kaori Ekuni

Twinkle Twinkle
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3.67 avg rating — 2,110 ratings — published 1991 — 25 editions

냉정과 열정사이 - Rosso
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3.73 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions

東京タワー [Tōkyō Tawā]
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3.20 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions

落下する夕方 [Rakkasuru yūgata]
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3.64 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions

God's Boat
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3.63 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions

冷静と情熱のあいだ―Rosso
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4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2001

つめたいよるに
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4.08 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions

号泣する準備はできていた [Gōkyūsuru junbi wa dekite ita]
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3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions

泳ぐのに、安全でも適切でもありません [Oyogu no ni, anzen de mo tekisetsu de mo arimasen]
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3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — p

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Kaori Ekuni

Japanese author

Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織 Ekuni Kaori, born 21 March 1964) is a Japanese author. She was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. Her father is Japanese haiku poet and essayist, Shigeru Ekuni.^[1]

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In Japan, she was dubbed the female Murakami. Her numerous works of fiction have been translated into several languages and published in many countries, including her novel Twinkle Twinkle, which has been translated into English.^[2]

From 2004 to 2008 her books were continuously in Korea's top 50 bestsellers list. Twinkle Twinkle was a bestseller in 1991.^[1]

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Works

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Selected works in English

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• "Girl Friends", trans. Sharni Wilson, Lunch Ticket, 2020^[3]
• "Night, wife, detergent", trans. Sharni Wilson, Asymptote, 2020^[4]

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