Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather
in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
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 develops from a perfunctory
acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the
bar, to a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly
into love. As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another,
time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing
seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees
to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is
a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and
old-fashioned romance.
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