Strange Weather In Tokyo

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Published May 28, 2014 by Portobello Books Ltd, imusti.

ISBN:
978-1-84627-510-4
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Respect 🙇 and sake 🍶

Found this book as looking for something that could introduce me to the Japanese culture, and knowing know what I didn't knew at the start I think it did a great job. I liked very much how the food and drink are described, the serving, the eating and it's texture. Showing the importance that food deserves. Though I read the book very slowly (4 months!) I enjoyed that pace and the pace of how the story os presented. I found the evolution of all the characters very interesting.

Review of 'Strange Weather in Tokyo' on 'Goodreads'

Superb—just what I, a big josei fan, needed after the incredible storytelling of the "ODDTAXI" anime. This is a delicately-told tale, as seen through the gauze of memory, curious with poky bits of humor in surprising places.

A couple of notes—I think original title, "Sensei no kaban", meaning "Sensei's briefcase", is much more lovely than the English's non sequitur.

Also something really funny about the opening. In English it goes, "His full name was … but I called him 'Sensei.' Not 'Mr.' or 'Sir,' just 'Sensei.'" I was curious what original text could result in this strange sentence, and I went to look on Bookwalker, and—if I may be so bold as to attempt a non-translation—it is, "… but I called him 'Sᴇɴsᴇɪ'. Not '先生', not 'Sensei', but all in small caps, 'Sᴇɴsᴇɪ'" (先生 is "sensei" in kanji, and the small caps are analogous to katakana, the "uppercase" Japanese syllabary; …

Review of 'Strange Weather In Tokyo' on 'Storygraph'

This was great. It made me cry. Yeah, it's a may/december romance between a 70-something and a thirty-something, but it's also just about loneliness, nostalgia, modernity, and being outside the flowing stream of society. The sex is one throwaway vague sentence, which suited me just fine. I'm here for the quiet vulnerability and the power of eating and drinking between humans. ¯

_(ツ)_/¯ can't explain why I liked it so much, but there it is. 

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