Hiromi Kawakami

Strange Weather in Tokyo (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tsukiko 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. Perfectly constructed, funny, and moving, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. This edition contains the bonus story, 'Parade', which imagines an ordinary day in the lives of this unusual couple.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Publications
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846275098
• Artikelnr.: 39273359

Autorenporträt

HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. She is the recipient of the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers, the Akutagawa Prize, the Ito Sei Literature Award, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize and the Joryu Bungaku Sho (Women Writers' Prize). Strange Weather in Tokyo won the Tanizaki prize, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and has been translated into thirteen languages. ALLISON MARKIN POWELL is a literary translator and editor in New York City. She has translated works by Osamu Dazai, Kaho Nakayama, and Motoyuki Shibata, and was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders.

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Inhaltsangabe

The Moon and the Batteries
Chicks
Twenty-Two Stars
Mushroom Hunting, Part 1
Mushroom Hunting, Part 2
New Year's
Karma
The Cherry Blossom Party, Part 1
The Cherry Blossom Party, Part 2
Lucky Chance
Spring Thunder
The Island, Part 1
The Island, Part 2
The Tidal Flat--Dream
The Cricket
In the Park
The Briefcase