Mieko Kawakami

Ms Ice Sandwich

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A witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Breasts and EggsA young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he wants nothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags.But life keeps getting in the way - there's his beloved grandmother's illness, and a faltering friendship with his classmate Tutti, who she invites him into her private world. Wry, intimate and wo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Heal Kawai, Louise (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-78227-331-8
EAN: 9781782273318
Produktnummer: 24612540
Verlag: Pushkin Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 235 KB

Über den Autor

Born in Osaka prefecture in 1976, Mieko Kawakami began her career as a singer and songwriter before making her literary debut in 2006. Her first novella My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, published in 2007, was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize and awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. The following year, Kawakami published Breasts and Eggs as a short novella. It won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary honour, and earned praise from the acclaimed writer Yoko Ogawa. Kawakami's work has been widely translated, and she is the author of the novels Heaven, The Night Belongs to Lovers, and the newly expanded Breasts and Eggs, her first novel to be published in English. She lives in Japan.