Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan a…
Mitsuha, seorang gadis SMA yang tinggal di sebuah desa di pegunungan, bermimpi dia menjadi seorang anak laki-laki. Dia bangun di sebuah kamar yang asing, berteman dengan orang asing, melihat kota Tokyo tepat di depan matanya. Di lain pihak, Taki, seorang pemuda SMA yang tinggal di Tokyo, juga bermimpi dirinya menjadi seorang gadis SMA yang tinggal di sebuah desa yang di kelilingi pegunungan.…
In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents …
Awarded Japan's highest literary prize, Sympathy Tower Tokyo is an extraordinary novel from one of the most exciting new voices in world literature. Partly inspired by conversations with an artificial intelligence, it offers an extraordinary defence of the power of language written by humans, a touching exploration of the imaginative impulse, and an often hilarious send up of our modern world's…
Ibu Guru menganggap Totto-chan nakal, padahal gadis cilik itu hanya punya rasa ingin tahu yang besar. Itulah sebabnya ia gemar berdiri di depan jendela selama pelajaran berlangsung. Karena para guru sudah tak tahan lagi, akhirnya Totto-chan dikeluarkan dari sekolah. Mama pun mendaftarkan Totto-chan ke Tomoe Gakuen. Totto-chan girang sekali, di sekolah itu para murid belajar di gerbong kereta…
Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste.