All the Lovers in the Night

All the Lovers in the Night (Japanese: すべて真夜中の恋人たち, Hepburn: Subete Mayonaka no Koibitotachi) is a 2011 novel by Mieko Kawakami, published by Kodansha.

"[2] Publishers Weekly wrote, "Kawakami turns this study of a 'dictionary definition of a miserable person,' as Fuyuko calls herself, into an invigorating and empowering portrait.

"[4] The New York Times Book Review writes, "What makes Kawakami's novel so brilliant is an understanding of why women might willingly adhere to regressive modes of performative femininity, even while they criticize it.

The desire to be loved is no small thing ... Kawakami's novel is uncompromisingly candid in its appraisal of the harm women inflict on one another, while never losing sight of the overarching structures that lead them to do so in the first place.

"[7] Shelf Awareness added that the novel's "colloquial, confessional and conversational style and wondrous discourses on the nature of light lend an atmospheric tone devoid of melodrama.