Hiromi Kawakami

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Tender romance between retired office workers navigating loneliness and connection

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Hiromi Kawakami
Hiromi Kawakami

Japanese novelist and short story writer whose Strange Weather in Tokyo is a widely beloved story of a late-blooming romance between a woman and her former school teacher. Her fiction has a quiet, melancholy beauty.

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