Days at the Torunka Cafe (UK edition)
Publisher,Bonnier Books Ltd
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 240
Shelf: FICTION / ADULT FICTION / ASIAN LITERARY FICTION
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From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.
Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Yumata, a middle-aged man who's returned to the neighborhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the café owner's teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister's death as she falls in love for the first time.
While the cafe serves up a perfect cup of coffee, it provides these sundry souls with nourishment far more lasting. Satoshi Yagisawa brilliantly illuminates the periods in our lives where we feel lost-and how we find our way again.
About the Author
Satoshi Yagisawa was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. He is the international bestselling author of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, which was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.
About the Translator
Eric Ozawa is a writer and translator. His translation of Satoshi Yagisawa’s novel Days at the Morisaki Bookshop was an international bestseller that was shortlisted for the British Book Award for Debut Book of the Year. He lives in New York, where he is a professor at New York University.
