"For the last episode of Mineral House in 2024, we will walk quietly next to a mid thirties, freelance proofreader in Japan, Fuyuko Irie. She’s having a birthday soon on Christmas' eve. Usually on the night of her birthday, she walks alone around the city, enjoying the lights. Fuyuko is a main protagonist in Mieko Kawakami's novel, All the Lovers in the Night (すべて真夜中の恋人たち / Subete Mayonaka no Koibitotachi). It was first published in September 2011 issue of the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo. In 2022, the novel was translated from Japanese into English by Sam Bett and David Boyd, published by Europa Editions."
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