Strange Weather in Tokyo

Author(s): Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)

General Fiction

An award-winning novel from one of Japan's most exciting literary voices: a short, simple and touching story of an unlikely love that blossoms across generations, and between seasons.


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Long-listed for Man Asian Literary Prize 2013.

Born in 1959 in Tokyo, HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. Her novel Drowning won both the Ito Sei Literature Award and Joryu Bungaku Sho (Woman Writers' Prize) in 2000. Her novel Manazuru won the 2011 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize. ALLISON MARKIN POWELL is a literary translator and editor in New York City. She has translated works by Osamu Dazai, Kaho Nakayama, and Motoyuki Shibata, and she was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders.

General Fields

  • : 9781846275104
  • : Portobello Books
  • : Portobello Books Ltd
  • : May 2014
  • : July 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
  • : Paperback