Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
A novel about the quest for food and love set in a Kyoto diner that not only serves delicious meals but also helps customers locate long forgotten dishes
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The linguistic influence of tea in Japan is more than ceremonial
The way of tea is one of inner peace and enjoying the moment. And it's good for understanding idioms, too.
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'How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart': Welcome sustenance for the Japan memoir genre
Author Florentyna Leow offers descriptive musings and pithy wisdom about love, food and Japan’s historical city as she traces the dissolution of a friendship in her new collection of essays.
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How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart  | Books | Metropolis Japan
20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto.
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Our critics' favorite books published in 2020
Dec 19, 2020 As 2021 approaches, six Japan Times book reviewers look back on their top reads released in English this year. Breasts and Eggs, Fiction, Mieko Kawakami (trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd), Picador, 432 pages If you missed “Breasts and Eggs,” Mieko Kawakami’s expansive and lively omnibus, put it at the top of your 2021 reading list. The book is made up of two connected novellas that were combined and translated into English this year, and together the story explores the human condition by examining what it means to be born. No one delves into humanity quite like Kawak...
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