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Strange Weather in Tokyo

Written by: Hiromi Kawakami
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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 30 years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.

Perfectly constructed, funny and moving, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.

©2014 Hiromi Kawakami (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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"True love is celebrated with humour, grace and pathos as the wary narrator recalls her unusual approach to dealing with an overwhelming passion." (Book of the Year, Irish Times)
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The protagonist's journey in the book mirrors our own struggles as we seek love and companionship in an increasingly complex world.

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Harutsuna Matsumoto was a strictly honourable, kind-hearted man. In the past, he had been Tsukiko Omachi's Japanese teacher. Though he was thirty years elder to Tsukiko, he was fitter than her! He had an immaculate penmanship and always sat with perfect posture. Whenever they encountered each other, they drained cups of sake, and there was magic in the draught. The thunder-showers had certainly a most beneficial effect upon the weather, and the evenings were most delightful.
He was a dignified, proud, admirable and poetic man - the only one who puzzled her when she thought about him!
They made frequent excursions among the mountains, islands, markets. Tsukiko behaved idiotically, just like a raw schoolgirl. And she hated herself for it! How she would have laid her life at his feet for his tender glances, his fond detention!
She didn’t know that her very genuineness and straightforwardness was her charm. She was everything he’d been looking for in a woman.

She called him Sensei.

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