It really is a moving and inspiring story which is as heart-warming as a delicious dorayaki, well maybe with a bit of salt. It feels important, significant and far-reaching. A book with deceptive heft and lingering resonance.- Japan Times Sweet Bean Paste is a book for your heart, mind.and appetite. It is an original twist on the odd couple genre, in which two unlikely companions find they have much to offer each other, and retains much of the humour that genre entails. Sukegawas writing style, delicately translated by Alison Watts, is well-matched to the subject matter: a slow, muted movement that gently guides the reader, while leaving the unnecessary unsaid. Review Quotes Sweet Bean Paste is a subtle, moving exploration of redemption in an unforgiving society. Translated into English for the first time, Durian Sukegawas beautiful prose is capturing hearts all over the world. Sweet Bean Paste is a moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of friendship. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokues dark secret is revealed, with devastating consequences. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted.

Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory.

I Love You A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan Sentaro has failed. Book Synopsis Im in story heaven with this book. About the Book Originally published in Japanese as An-Title page verso.

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