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Emi Yagi is an editor at a women’s magazine in Japan. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Her first novel and international cult hit, Diary of a Void, won the Osamu Dazai Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction.

Books by Emi Yagi

When the Museum is Closed

When Rika accepts an unusual part-time job at the museum, she never expects to fall in love with Venus herself, in the joyful new novel from the author of Japanese cult hit Diary of a Void

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Diary of a Void

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant

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