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Strange Weather in Tokyo

2017-11-01 Fiction
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Release : 2017-11-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 177/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Strange Weather in Tokyo by : Hiromi Kawakami

Download or read book Strange Weather in Tokyo written by Hiromi Kawakami. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Parade

2019-11-05 Fiction
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Release : 2019-11-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Parade by : Hiromi Kawakami

Download or read book Parade written by Hiromi Kawakami. This book was released on 2019-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . An ethereal, resonating literary gift" (Booklist, starred review) from the internationally bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. "On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together. “Tell me a story from long ago,” Sensei says. “I wasn’t alive long ago,” Tsukiko says, “but should I tell you a story from when I was little?” “Please do,” Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room, arguing with each other. They had human bodies, long noses, and wings. They were tengu, creatures that appear in Japanese folktales. The tengu attach themselves to Tsukiko and begin to follow her everywhere. Where did they come from and why are they here? And what other invisible and unacknowledged forces are acting upon Tsukiko’s seemingly peaceful world?"

The Ten Loves of Nishino

2019-06-04 Fiction
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Release : 2019-06-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 320/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Ten Loves of Nishino by : Hiromi Kawakami

Download or read book The Ten Loves of Nishino written by Hiromi Kawakami. This book was released on 2019-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him at one point in their lives. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, ten women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching novel by one of Japan’s best-selling and most beloved writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. A little like Nishino himself . . . Winner 2020 Pen Translation Prize Praise for The Ten Loves of Nishino “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.” —DozoDomo (France) “Agile, inventive fiction.” —Booklist “An intriguing portrayal of romantic attachment.” —The New Yorker “The women in this collection are vibrant, lusty, and clearly the agents of their own love lives . . . . Kawakami's novel treats its feminist themes with a light hand but still slyly lands its points.” —Kirkus Reviews

Manazuru

2017-11-01 Fiction
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Release : 2017-11-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Manazuru written by Hiromi Kawakami. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future. Twelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three–year–old daughter. Her new relationship with a married man—the antithesis of Rei—has brought her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother and daughter have spilled into routine, day after day. Kei begins making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place that jogs her memory to a moment in time she can never quite locate. Her time there by the water encompasses years of unsteady footing and a developing urgency to find something. Through a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. Manazuru is a meditation on memory—a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members.

People From My Neighbourhood

2020-08-06 Fiction
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Release : 2020-08-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 989/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book People From My Neighbourhood written by Hiromi Kawakami. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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