A01=Asako Otani
Author_Asako Otani
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child-free life
dating and relationships
dating apps
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funny Japanese novel
Japanese fiction
satire modern love
single women
Tokyo
unconventional women
workplace novel
Product details
- ISBN 9781805680017
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague, Suganuma, people raise eyebrows, but the two women quickly settle into their own soothing domestic routines.
Yet escaping the pressures of romantic love isn't easy. When a crisis jolts her back into the world of dating apps, Hirai meets more painfully adequate men and frets about freezing her eggs again. Surely there must be another way to feel less hollow? Witty and deadpan, Hollow Inside is a wonderfully skewed story of two single women trying to carve out their own space in a world of couples.
Asako Otani was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1990. Her debut novel, Hollow Inside, won the 2022 Subaru Literary Prize.
Ginny Tapley Takemori is the prize-winning translator of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, and Life Ceremony, as well as many of her short stories, and other celebrated authors including Kyoko Nakajima and Ryu Murakami.
