Izumi Suzuki is a Japanese author who prior to her writing career of the 1970s and ’80s worked as a model and actress. Her fiction was largely of the science fiction variety (two books of short ...

“Set My Heart on Fire” follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships. By Molly Young When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

“It’s a sad story,” states a character at the end of “Set My Heart on Fire,” Izumi Suzuki’s first novel to be translated into English. Known for her science fiction, Suzuki switches genres to tell the ...

“Long ago, the Earth was peopled only by women,” writes the Japanese author Izumi Suzuki near the start of her most famous short story, “Women and Women,” a parable of matriarchy — in this case ...