Tokyo Girls Club

Following her internationally acclaimed bestseller *Butter*, which won the British Book Award, her new book *Tokyo Girls Club* is finally being released—a novel about obsession, friendship, and the slow unraveling of two lives.

The event will be moderated by translator Dr. Katja Cassing.

Eriko has a prestigious job at a trading firm and a flawless life, but beneath the surface lies an all-consuming loneliness. She is fascinated by Shoko, a housewife who lives day by day like a cat and chronicles her unconventional daily life on her lifestyle blog, “Diary of a Useless Wife.” When the two meet by chance, a special bond forms, but it takes a toxic turn when Shoko suddenly stops blogging and disappears. They are swept into a vortex of obsession that leaves a trail of devastation in its wake.

Tokyo Girls Club is a bold novel, captivating and psychologically profound.

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She has received numerous awards for her writing, most recently the Noma Publishing Culture Prize. Her novel Butter is a bestseller in Japan and has sold 200,000 copies there alone. It has been published worldwide in numerous languages and won the British Book Award in 2025. Tokyo Girls Club was awarded the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.

Dr. Katja Cassing, born in 1970, studied Japanese and English in Trier and Tokyo; Ph.D. in 2002; worked as an editor on the Great Japanese-German Dictionary from November 2000 through December 2018 (first at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, then at the Free University of Berlin); since January 2019, freelance literary translator from Japanese (under the names Katja Cassing or Katja Busson).

• Thursday, June 4, 2026 | 8:00 PM

• Location: BUCHBOX! Kastanienallee