← Mitsuyo KakutaThe Eighth Dayby Mitsuyo KakutaExploration of sibling bonds and mysterious family secrets across generationsFind 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→Woman on the Other ShoreStory of estranged women and the past that divides them across continents→Maple→