Strange weather in Tokyo : a novel / Hiromi Kawakami ; translated by Allison Markin Powell.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2017]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 179 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1640090169
- 9781640090163
- Sensei no kaban. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | Kawakami Hiromi | Available | 33111009557295 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei," in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.
Date of publication from publisher's Web site.
"First published as The Briefcase by Counterpoint in 2012"--Title page verso.
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night she encounters her now retired former high school teacher "Sensei" in a local bar. Despite the 30 year age difference, their relationship develops and grows into love.
In English, translated from the Japanese.