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When the Museum is Closed

byEmi Yagi, Yuki Tejima (Translator), Kae Alexander (Read by)

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There she stood. A goddess. I was in love with the marble goddess.

When Rika Horauchi accepts an unusual new part-time job, she never expects to fall in love.

Rika has been tasked with talking to Venus, to keep her company when the museum is closed on Mondays. As Venus comes to life in the quiet of their surroundings, she opens up new worlds for Rika, and they speak about everything. But when the museum’s curator, Hashibami, makes it clear he wants to keep Venus for himself, what will Rika do?

When the Museum is Closed is by turns charming, funny and surprising, a love story about our perceptions of beauty, overcoming loneliness and breaking free.

Translated by Yuki Tejima

'Slim and strangely exuberant...[an] unexpected, absurd humour' New Yorker

© Emi Yagi 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Slim and strangely exuberant...[an] unexpected, absurd humor

New Yorker

About Emi Yagi

Emi Yagi is an editor at a women’s magazine in Japan. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Her first novel and international cult hit, Diary of a Void, won the Osamu Dazai Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529946468
  • Length: 228 minutes
  • Price: £14.00
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