ISBN: 9781640090163
Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from Japanese by Allison Markin Powell
Publisher Information: Counterpoint LLC
Publication Date: 2017/11/14
Topical Subject Header: Fiction

Strange Weather in Tokyo

C$23.00

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school teachers and, unable to remember his name, she falls back into her old habit of calling him 'Sensei'. After this first encounter, Tsukiko and Sensei continue to meet. Together, they share edamame beans, bottles of cold beer, and a trip to the mountains to eat wild mushrooms. As their friendship deepens, Tsukiko comes to realise that the solace she has found with Sensei might be something more.
HIROMI KAWAKAMI was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first book, God ( Kamisama) was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Tread on a Snake ( Hebi o fumu), and in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo ( Sensei no kaban), which was an international bestseller. The book was short-listed for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize.
ALLISON MARKIN POWELL is a translator, editor, and publishing consultant. In addition to Hiromi Kawakami's Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and The Ten Loves of Nishino, she has translated books by Osamu Dazai and Fuminori Nakamura, and her work has appeared in Words Without Borders and Granta, among other publications. She maintains the database japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.