Butter

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby Emma Loffhagen · May 2026

  The feverish interiority of a young woman abroad is captured with offbeat wit and disarming candour in the first novel from the translator of Butter

• The Guardianby Catherine Taylor · Mar 2026

  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

• The Guardianby Camilla Grudova · Mar 2025

  The narrator muses on everything from pornography to David Lynch, in this gloriously transgressive debut from Japan