An edition of センセイの鞄 (2001)

Strange weather in Tokyo

a novel

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An edition of センセイの鞄 (2001)

Strange weather in Tokyo

a novel

  • 3.5 (4 ratings)
  • 65 Want to read
  • 7 Have read

"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-traced by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons-develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to an enjoyable sense of companionship, and finally into a deeply sentimental love affair. As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing comes across through the seasons and the food and beverages they consume together. From warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms, the reader is enveloped by a keen sense of pathos and both characters' loneliness"--

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English
Pages
179

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Cover of: Strange weather in Tokyo
Strange weather in Tokyo: a novel
2017
in English
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El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca: una historia de amor
2017, Alfaguara
in Spanish - Primera edición en Alfaguara.
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LES ANNEES DOUCES
Feb 01, 2005, PICQUIER
pocket book in French

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Edition Notes

Date of publication from publisher's web site.

"First published as The Briefcase by Counterpoint in 2012."--Verso of title page.

Translated From
Japanese

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.63/6
Library of Congress
PL855.A859 S4613 2017

Contributors

Translator
Allison Markin Powell

The Physical Object

Pagination
179 pages
Number of pages
179

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26940216M
ISBN 10
1640090169
ISBN 13
9781640090163
OCLC/WorldCat
982500701

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL13595960W

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