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Kawakami Hiromi: Strange Weather In Tokyo (Paperback, 2014, Portobello Books Ltd, imusti) 4 stars

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

5 stars

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.