When the Museum is Closed

Emi Yagi is an editor at a women''s magazine in Japan. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Osamu Dazai Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction.>

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Emi Yagi is an editor at a women’s magazine in Japan. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Her first novel and international cult hit, Diary of a Void, won the Osamu Dazai Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction.Yuki Tejima is the translator of Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon and How to Hold Someone in Your Heart, Kumi Kimura’s Someone to Watch Over You, and the sequel to Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s bestselling memoir, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window 2. She moved from the US to Tokyo, where she now lives.

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Product details

• Authors: Emi Yagi
• Assisted by: Yuki Tejima (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9781787304642
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-464-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy Romance, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Romance / Workplace, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Feminist, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, FICTION / Fantasy / Romance, FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / General, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and Contemporary romance