{"product_id":"dont-laugh-at-other-peoples-sex-lives-paperback","title":"Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNao-Cola Yamazaki\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePolly Barton\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eKatie Kitamura\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tender and prickly and consistently confounds expectation . . . the novel is deft and light as air. But it carries a streak of something stronger and sharper than melancholy, tracing a relationship that is at once moving and deeply fraught.\" --from the foreword by Katie Kitamura, author of \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA love story that feels both new and achingly true from one of Japan's most acclaimed writers, capturing the intensity, uncertainties, and intimacy of falling for someone for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt student Isogai first models for one of his tutors, the much older Yuri, then begins a passionate affair with her. As he gets to know her better, he struggles to understand his own emotions and place in the world, just as he yearns to be closer to her and for her to share more of herself with him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA touching portrait of late adolescence, Isogai captured with exasperation, humor, and tenderness, \u003ci\u003eDon't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is above all else an exploration of the exhilarating and destabilizing experience of a first love that defies prediction or explanation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Deftly unpack[s] intimacy, grief, and the poignancy of life's quiet moments.\" --Forbes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNao-Cola Yamazaki \u003c\/b\u003e(山崎 ナオコーラ, Yamazaki Nao-Cola) is a Japanese writer. They pride themselves on writing 'things no one else can say in words anyone can understand.' The author of Beautiful Distance and \"Dad, I Love You\" in The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction, they have won the Bungei Prize and the Shimase Award for Love Stories, and have been nominated multiple times for the Akutagawa Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolly Barton \u003c\/b\u003eis a Japanese writer and translator. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eHunchback\u003c\/i\u003e by Saou Ichikawa and \u003ci\u003eThere's No Such Thing as an Easy Job\u003c\/i\u003e by Kikuko Tsumura. Her translation of Asako Yuzuki's \u003ci\u003eButter\u003c\/i\u003e was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2024. She is the author of two nonfiction books, \u003ci\u003eFifty Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePorn: An Oral History\u003c\/i\u003e, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eWhat Am I, a Deer?\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67851147870515,"sku":"9781638932703","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/JgYUFdGN1x9781638932703.webp?v=1793511103","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dont-laugh-at-other-peoples-sex-lives-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}