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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Counterpoint
Publication date April 10, 2012
Pages 176
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781582435992
ISBN-10 1582435995
Dimensions 0.50 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight 0.34 lbs.
Original list price $15.95
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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’ keen loneliness.


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With Allison Markin Powell (other contributor) | from Counterpoint (April 10, 2012)
9781582435992 | details & prices | 176 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.34 lbs | List price $15.95
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