Strange weather in Tokyo
a novel
by 川上弘美
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"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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Middle-aged women, Older men, Fiction, FICTION / Literary, Japan, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Middle aged women, Elderly men, Ficción, Teachers, Maestros, Teachers -- Japan -- Fiction, Maestros -- Japón -- Ficción, Japan -- Fiction, Japón -- Ficción, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Language and languagesShowing 3 featured editions. View all 21 editions?
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El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca: una historia de amor
2017, Alfaguara
in Spanish
- Primera edición en Alfaguara.
8420423882 9788420423883
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"First published as The Briefcase by Counterpoint in 2012."--Verso of title page.
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