Someone to Watch Over You

Kumi Kimura, Yuki Tejima

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Japanese

Pushkin Press
17 June 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

It's early 2020, and with the world in chaos as coronavirus spreads, two lonely people, both seeking to break with their pasts, meet and start sharing a home.

One is a former security guard who was captured on video knocking down a protester who died soon afterward; the other, a former teacher accused of driving a student to suicide.

In an oppressive atmosphere of tension and fear, the pair avoid direct contact and communicate through notes and their shared presences, close yet distant. Their odd connection, with neither affection nor trust, brings them a kind of privacy and safety they both need - but at what cost?

By: Kumi Kimura
Translated by: Yuki Tejima
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781805330059
ISBN 10: 1805330055
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 17 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kumi Kimura is a Japanese writer. She won the Literary World Newcomer Award for her debut novel, and has subsequently been shortlisted twice for the Akutagawa Prize and won the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize. Someone to Watch Over You is her first work to be translated into English. Yuki Tejima is a writer and translator from Los Angeles who is currently based in Tokyo. She grew up reading books in English and Japanese, and writes about them and the wonderful Japanese bookstores she encounters at @booknerdtokyo.

Reviews for Someone to Watch Over You

""Kimura’s taut, award-winning debut novella will transport readers back to a time when paranoia and distrust ran rampant. Lines are expertly drawn from this shared experience to broader issues of modern life: distrust of others, constant surveillance, and the loneliness that these engender. Fans of Han Kang will appreciate the sparse and affecting writing."" – Library Journal