Alison Watts

About The Author

Alison Watts is the award-winning translator of The Boy and the Dog, What You are Looking For is in the Library and other highly acclaimed contemporary Japanese fiction. She lives in Australia.

Books by Alison Watts

How To Use 3,000 Yen

The new Japanese bestseller from the author of Dinner at the Night Library

By Hika Harada
Translated by Alison Watts
What does the way you spend a small amount of money say about your life?In How to Use 3,000 Yen, Hika Harada weaves a warm, wise and deeply relatable story of three generations of women navigating love, work, family—and the quiet anxieties of money. From a young woman confronting the fragility of...
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The Boy and the Dog
By Seishu Hase
Translated by Alison Watts
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. For fans of The Guest Cat, Sweet Bean Paste and Before the Coffee Gets...
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