A woman in love with her close friend, to whom she is afraid to confess her feelings; a teenager captivated by his neighbor, older than him; women who walk the path that leads to old age, the loss of love and loneliness, divided between hope and disappointment, are some of the characters that inhabit the stories that Hiromi Kawakami offers us. Amores imperfectos is a beautiful, lyrical, sober and subtle book that deals, with exquisite prose, the deepest and darkest human feelings.