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誕生日の夜、プレーリードッグや地球外生物が集い、老婦人は可愛い息子の将来を案じた日々を懐かしむ。年寄りだらけになった日本では誰もが贈り物のアイデアに心悩ませ、愛を語る掌サイズのおじさんの頭上に しぐれが降りそそぐ。不思議な人々と気になる恋。不機嫌上機嫌の風にあおられながら、それでも手に手をとって、つるつるごつごつ恋の悪路に素足でふみこむ女たちを慈しむ21篇。
298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 29, 2018
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Hiromi Kawakami
111 books3,565 followersKawakami Hiromi (川上弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
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Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
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