Strange Weather in Tokyo

A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture' StylistTsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. Strange Weather in Tokyo is perfectly constructed, warmly funny and deeply moving. This edition contains the bonus story, 'Parade', which imagines an ordinary day in the lives of this unusual couple. 'A dream-like spell of a novel, full of humour, sadness, warmth and tremendous subtlety. I read this in one sitting and I think it will haunt me for a long time' Amy Sackville 'Kawakami transforms an affecting cross-generational romance into an exquisite poem of time and mutability... Delicate and haunting' Independent

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hiromi Kawakami, Kawakami Hiromi
• Mitarbeit: Allison Markin Powell (Übersetzung), Powell Allison Markin (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Granta Books
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2020
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9781783785797
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-579-7
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.8 x 19.8 x 1.6 cm
• Themen: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Studio Ghibli, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, before the coffee gets cold, Sweet Bean Paste; Tales from the Café; Before the Coffee Gets Cold; breasts and eggs; modern japanese fiction; new japanese novel; japanese romance; studio ghibli; Lonely Castle in the Mirror; I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki; woman in the , new japanese novel, breasts and eggs, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, lonely castle in the mirror, woman in the purple skirt, modern japanese fiction, japanese romance, Tales from the Café