Someone to Watch Over You by Kumi Kimura
An unsettling, poignant story about two troubled strangers finding refuge in each other during the pandemic
As coronavirus spreads, paranoia overtakes a quiet northern Japanese town. People keep strict social distance, they disinfect their groceries and doorknobs, they fear-especially anyone from a teeming city. In these tense, antiseptic circumstances, two odd loners meet.
One bears the burden of possibly causing a protestor's death, the other worries her behaviour led to a student's suicide. In their remote lives, there is no relief. But then an unlikely connection begins to grow between them.
As the world collapses around them, can they become one another's refuge?
Kumi Kimura is a Japanese writer. She won the Literary World Newcomer Award for her debut novel, and has subsequently been shortlisted twice for the Akutagawa Prize and won the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize. Someone to Watch Over You is her first work to be translated into English. Yuki Tejima is a writer and translator from Los Angeles who is currently based in Tokyo. She grew up reading books in English and Japanese, and writes about them and the wonderful Japanese bookstores she encounters at @booknerdtokyo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781805330059 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805330055 |
| Title | Someone to Watch Over You |
| Author | Kumi Kimura |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2025-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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