もう一杯だけ飲んで帰ろう

by Mitsuyo Kakuta, 角田光代, Takehiro Kono

ふたりで訪れたおいしいお店をそれぞれの視点で綴った初の夫婦共著エッセイ。ずっと別々に行っていた居酒屋に今は二人で一緒に。旅先の味を求めてミャンマー料理を食べに。近所の古本酒場で常連たちと盛り上がり、芝居を観た後は朝まで話し合う。昼飲みの聖地ではしご酒、うまい魚を食べるためには電車に乗って。ご近所から海外まで、今夜も夫婦で一杯飲みに。読めばおかわり必至ごくごく読める楽しいエッセイ。

209 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2017

About the author

Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, 1967–) set her sights on becoming a writer from an early age. Her debut novel—Kōfuku na yūgi (A Blissful Pastime), written while she was a university student—received the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. She has been working continuously as an author ever since, never having had to support herself with a separate job. Three nominations for the Akutagawa Prize serve as a measure of the promise with which she was regarded from early in her career. Then, at the encouragement of an editor, she shifted toward the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, where she garnered a much broader readership with works depicting the lives of women in her generation, from their mid-thirties to forties. After publishing two brilliant novels in 2002, Ekonomikaru paresu (Economical Palace) and Kūchū teien (Hanging Garden), she went on to win the Naoki Prize for the second half of 2004 with Woman on the Other Shore (tr. 2007). Her successes continued with The Eighth Day (tr. 2010), which received the 2007 Chūō Kōron Literary Prize and was made into a televised drama series as well as a movie; the book sold more than a million copies, vaulting her into the ranks of Japan's best-selling authors. In 2012 she added to her list of honors by earning the Shibata Renzaburō Award for her novel Kami no tsuki (Paper Moon), and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for her volume of short stories Kanata no ko (The Children Beyond).

Mitsuyo Kakuta is currently working on translating the Tale of Genji into modern Japanese.
(source: BooksFromJapan.jp)