Tsukiko is 38, lives alone, works in an office, and is not entirely satisfied with her life when she runs into a former high school teacher, her “sensei,” at a bar one night. Shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a sweet and poignant story of love and loneliness. Have I peaked your interest but you don’t know where to start? Check out this reading pathway and enjoy! Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell A huge shoutout to the amazing translators listed below -Lucy North, Michael Emmerich, and Allison Markin Powell-who capture the intricacies and depth of her writing, it seems an unimaginable task. Her writing is subtle and provocative- quirky doesn’t do it justice but it’s immensely strange and appealing and surprisingly sweet.
I was introduced to her recently and immediately fell for her distinct style and interesting female protagonists. Her work has been published in more than twenty languages.Hiromi Kawakami is an award-winning and bestselling Japanese author known for her contemporary fiction. Hiromi Kawakami has previously been awarded the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her most recent novel, Running Water, was published in Japan in 2014 and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Since the publication of God in 1994, she has written numerous novels and collections of short stories, including Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop. Hiromi Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958. Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales. In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing. The night had only just begun.'In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers'The nightingale sang again.
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