Ashes of Spring - Mieko Kawakami

Category: Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Japanese Short Story Collection

Written by Mieko Kawakami
Read by Sura Siu
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Award-winning Japanese author and poet Mieko Kawakami brings Ashes of Spring, a collection of short stories set in everyday life in Japan just before the pandemic lockdown. Kawakami’s stories straddle the line between delicate and beautiful human connection and the brutality of human nature. This poignant collection vividly captures the world we created shortly before it was put on pause, the characters at the center, painfully real. As we emerge five years later, Kawakami offers a stark reminder of our own fragility.

Translations by David Boyd and Hitomi Yoshio

4 hrs and 42 mins
March 7, 2025