A Tokyo high-flyer tries to befriend her favourite blogger in a novel that wears its aura of black comedy lightly, and its political statements more heavily ...

Loneliness in women is on the rise in Japan, and friendship can help. But in this novel, connection quickly becomes obsession.

Butter, her novel about a female serial killer, was a global hit. As Asako Yuzuki’s second book is published in English, she talks about criticism at home – and why she’ll be writing darker stories in ...

After Butter’s global success, Yuzuki examines female friendship, modern isolation and the pressures of perfection ...

Hooked review: The new Butter? Sadly it just doesn’t fly... - It simmers with discomfort. I spent much of it waiting for the seminal moment which never came ...

Butter author Asako Yuzuki’s latest novel offers clues about what is behind the vogue for Japanese fiction By Finn McRedmond There is nothing more complicated in the observable universe than ...

Two lonely dreamers, a young man in Seoul and a teen girl in Tokyo, find their emotional aspirations connected in mysterious ways in "Asako in Ruby Shoes," a delicate, slyly humorous love story that ...