Book review: The Nakano Thrift Shop

HIROMI KAWAKANI is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists and, thanks to Allison Markin Powell’s translation, we get to enjoy this meandering and innocent novel.

Sat, 10 Sep, 2016 - 01:00

Review: Rachel Howdle

Hiromi Kawakani

Portobello Books, £12.99;

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