The ten loves of mr nishino review5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() “Deep in my heart, I wondered whether a girl existed in the world who was kind and strong enough to love Nishino. The Ten Loves of Nishino is a tough but fun book to unpack and explore, so let’s give it a try. Each of their chapters is a story in its own right, with Nishino as the common thread. ![]() We get to peer behind the curtain of ten different lives ten different women from the age of thirteen to thirty and beyond. The book uses unique perspectives to evoke a broad empathy that demands a lot, emotionally, from the reader. The out-of-order biography of an enigmatic frustration of a man tortured and strange, told through the intimate first-person perspectives of ten of his women lovers throughout his life. The Ten Loves of Nishino (or The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino in the UK) is a novel that is, much like Kawakami’s other works, at once frolicking fun and darkly mournful. ![]()
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