{"id":5598,"date":"2022-12-31T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T00:37:21","slug":"book-strange-weather-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-strange-weather-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Weather in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"StrangeTitle:<\/strong> Strange Weather in Tokyo
Author:<\/strong> Hiromi Kawakami<\/a>
Translator:<\/strong> Allison Markin Powell<\/a>
First Published:<\/strong> January 1, 2001<\/span>
Publisher:<\/strong> Counterpoint<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 192
Genre:<\/strong> Contemporary Romance<\/a>
Format:<\/strong> Paperback<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> Library<\/a>
Rating:<\/strong> <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/a>
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Synopsis:<\/strong>

Tsukiko, thirty\u2013eight, 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2013fashioned romance.<\/p>\nGet the Book:<\/strong> Amazon<\/a>\r\n

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