Jesse Kirkwood

About The Author

Jesse Kirkwood was awarded the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize in 2020 and has translated the bestselling Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto, A Perfect Day to Be Alone by Nanae Aoyama, The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, and Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan. He lives in the United Kingdom.

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Books by Jesse Kirkwood

Sympathy Tower Tokyo

A Novel

By Rie Qudan

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood

“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times

“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial Times

The award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo ...

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