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- Location(s): Jimbocho
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘A brilliant modern love story. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of love, family and identity. I loved it’ Cathy Rentzenbrink Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking...
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
- Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Turn 19th Century
A young student makes himself the acolyte of an old man he calls ‘Sensei’. Bitter, cynical and indolent, Sensei has withdrawn from society. The young student is at once attracted by these qualities and also deeply puzzled. Not even...