![]() ![]() 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. The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series. An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale. 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. lationship-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. He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. ![]() Tsukiko had only ever called him Sensei ( Teacher ). One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, Sensei in a local bar. ![]() Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. Translated by Powell, Allison Markin By Kawakami, Hiromi For the most part I enjoyed the writing of these stories, but really they were just a little too strange for me to enjoy fully 2 stars. The Briefcase (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Overall rating: Record of a Night Too Brief is an extremely quirky collection of stories by Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami. ![]()
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