Strangers (Yamada novel)

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Strangers (Japanese: 異人たちとの夏, Romanization: Ijintachi to no natsu, lit. Summer with the Strangers) is a novel by Taichi Yamada, published in 1987. The English translation by Wayne Lammers was published in 2003. The novel has also been translated into German as Sommer mit Fremden, French as Présences d'un été, and Swedish as Främlingar (2009).

The Japanese original won the 1988 Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for best human-interest novel.^[1] The English translation was one of sixteen works long-listed for the 2006 Foreign Fiction prize awarded by The Independent.

A film based on the novel, The Discarnates, directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko, was released in 1988. The 2023 English-language film All of Us Strangers, directed by Andrew Haigh, is also based on the novel.