by Hiromi Kawakami · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846276026
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«The Nakano Thrift Shop» is the contemporary novel by Hiromi Kawakami, published by Granta Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Hitomi starts working at a second-hand shop in Tokyo run by Mr Nakano. Amid the bric-a-brac, the young woman observes her singular colleagues: the owner, an enigmatic ladies' man; his lover Sakiko; the artist Masayo; and the taciturn Takeo. A slice-of-life story about love and the bonds that form between objects and people.
Work originally published in 2005 as «Furudōgu Nakano Shōten»; this English edition, translated by Allison Markin Powell, was published in 2017.
For readers of contemporary Japanese fiction and literary fiction, with eccentric characters and an urban setting.
Hiromi Kawakami is a Japanese writer, known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Her work has been adapted for film and has been translated into more than 15 languages.
