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The Briefcase
Author(s): Hiromi Kawakami (Author), Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
- Publisher: Counterpoint
- Publication Date: 26 April 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1582435995
- ISBN-13: 9781582435992
Book Description
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. 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.
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I’m hooked on
The Briefcase, a sentimental novel about the friendship, formed over late nights at a sake bar, between a Tokyo woman in her late thirties and her old high school teacher… I can only imagine what wizardry must have gone into Allison Markin Powell’s translation.”Lorin Stein, The Paris Review Daily“A dream-like spell of a novel, full of humour, sadness, warmth and tremendous subtlety. I read this in one sitting and I think it will haunt me for a long time.” Amy Sackville
In quiet, nature-infused prose that stresses both characters’ solitude, Kawakami subtly captures the cyclic patterns of loneliness while weighing the definition of love.”
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