# All of Us Strangers

- Author: Taichi Yamada
- Translator: Wayne P. Lammers
- Original title (Japanese): 異人たちとの夏
- First published: 1987
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- This edition: 2024
- ISBN: 9780063411524
- Shelf: Japanese Literature in Translation

## Card

A recently divorced TV writer, living in a near-empty Tokyo building, meets a couple who look exactly like his parents, dead since his childhood.  
The writing is plain and a little nervous, and summer heat, old neighborhoods, and loneliness give it a soft, uneasy glow.  
For a night when the summer heat lingers.  

## About this book

Harada, a television scriptwriter in his late forties, lives alone in an office-and-apartment building that empties out at night. On a visit to Asakusa, the old district where he grew up, he meets a man and a woman who seem to be his parents, unchanged since they died decades ago. He keeps returning to their small apartment, and he also begins seeing Kei, a woman from his building. The book stays with grief, longing, and the pull of the past.

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