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People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it w ...Show more
Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Japanese Novellas Ser.
One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother...So begins the story of a woman trying to live with a snake, with herself - or perhaps with something else altogether. This volume includes the three stori ...Show more
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Trans Allison Markin Powell
An award-winning novel from one of Japan's most exciting literary voices: a short, simple and touching story of an unlikely love that blossoms across generations, and between seasons.
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and ...Show more
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any l ...Show more
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Hitomi takes a job on the cash register of a neighbourhood thrift store, she finds herself drawn into a very idiosyncratic community. There is Mr Nakano, an enigmatic ladies' man with several ex-wives; Masayo, Mr Nakano's sister, an artist who has never married; and her fellow employee Takeo, a shy ...Show more
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop, an irresistible new novel about an elusive ladies' man and the women who have loved him. Who loves Mr Nishino?Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances.His ...Show more
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop, an irresistible new novel about an elusive ladies' man and the women who have loved him.
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