← Mitsuyo KakutaMapleby Mitsuyo KakutaFind on Amazon↗About the authorMitsuyo KakutaJapanese novelist known for psychologically acute portrayals of contemporary women's lives. Cruel World Is Like Paradise won the Naoki Prize; her fiction explores domestic unhappiness and female solidarity with great subtlety.More by Mitsuyo KakutaCruel World Is Like ParadiseDark meditation on cruelty and happiness in contemporary family relationships→The Eighth DayExploration of sibling bonds and mysterious family secrets across generations→Woman on the Other ShoreStory of estranged women and the past that divides them across continents→