Strange Weather in Tokyo

Author(s): Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)

Novel

An award-winning novel from one of Japan's most exciting literary voices: a short, simple and touching story of an unlikely love that blossoms across generations, and between seasons.

Gentle, pared back and delightful, Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami is a love story. Like the amazing Japanese food described throughout this book, the relationship Tsukiko forms with her former teacher is careful, precise and beautiful. Kawakami is an author I will be searching out again - her writing is poetic and delicate, with a wry twist. - Stella


Product Information

An award-winning novel from one of Japan's most exciting literary voices: a short, simple and touching story of an unlikely love that blossoms across generations, and between seasons

Long-listed for Man Asian Literary Prize 2013.

Born in 1959 in Tokyo, HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. Her novel Drowning won both the Ito Sei Literature Award and Joryu Bungaku Sho (Woman Writers' Prize) in 2000. Her novel Manazuru won the 2011 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize. ALLISON MARKIN POWELL is a literary translator and editor in New York City. She has translated works by Osamu Dazai, Kaho Nakayama, and Motoyuki Shibata, and she was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders.

General Fields

  • : 9781846275104
  • : Portobello Books
  • : Portobello Books Ltd
  • : 0.142
  • : May 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
  • : Paperback
  • : Jul-14
  • : English
  • : 895.636
  • : 192