Heaven (Kodansha Bunko)
Categories：Modern Novels
A finalist for the 2022 Booker International Prize!
A world never seen before awaits.
Double winner of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Award for New Artists and the Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award
- One day when I was 14 years old, I endured bullying from my classmates. receives a letter from an unknown sender. However, the intimate and innocent relationship that was developed between the bullied begins to take a strange turn. What did I see in the world I chose after so much struggle? The author's new work questions the roots of values ??such as good and bad, strength and weakness, and received an overwhelming response.
??New York Times
...The novel's dissonance becomes a perfect vision with a breathtaking ending that becomes a source of meaning, beauty, and life-affirming ground. This is a rare, profound yet satisfying way for a writer as complex as Kawakami to end a story. When you read her work, you realize that she is a writer who is not afraid of anything
??London Review of Books
Kawakami deals with abstract and very big issues in a strangely direct and individual way. It is presented on a single plate as if it were a problem
??Financial Times
... Towards the end, the reader becomes so absorbed in the intuitive details and philosophical complexity that it becomes dizzying. , and a twist that hits you with a strange and unpredictable force
??Independent
When you read Heaven, you feel as if a beautiful yet cruel teenage boy is sitting on your chest.
??Oprah Daily
A poignant odyssey set in the cursed cave of adolescence by the author of last year's acclaimed Summer Story
Kawakami Mieko (Author)
About the Author
Born in Osaka. In 2007, he received the Waseda University Tsubouchi Shoyo Award Encouragement Award for "My Rate in Teeth, or the World''. In 2008, he won the Akutagawa Prize for "Milk and Eggs.'' In 2009, he won the poetry collection "On the tip, Sasuruwa.'' In 2010, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Award and the Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award were awarded for "Heaven.'' In 2013, the Jun Takami Prize was awarded for the poetry collection "Suibin,'' and the Junichiro Tanizaki Award was given for "A Dream of Love.'' , won the Junichi Watanabe Literary Award for "Akogare'' in 2016. In addition, the short story "Marie's Proof of Love" was selected as Granta Best of Young Japanese Novelists 2016. In 2019, he won the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for "Summer Story'', and this work has become a bestseller in the UK, US, Germany, Italy, etc., and is scheduled to be published in more than 40 countries around the world. He is also the author of many other works, including "All Midnight Lovers,'' "Spring's Scary Things,'' and "Earths Fly into Twilight,'' co-authored with Haruki Murakami.
Publisher: Kodansha (2012/5/15)
Release date: 2012/5/15
Language: Japanese
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 4062772469
ISBN-13: 978-4062772464
Dimensions: 10.6 x 1.2 x 14.8cm
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